This course covers a range of literary theories situated within context/worldview and reader-oriented approaches to literary criticism. Each lecture is accompanied by a set of relevant tutorials in which selected literary texts are interpreted with reference to a specific literary theory.
- Créateur de cours: Adel Boulegroune
African American experience in the United States' history and society is a peculiar and tragic one. The course explores the history, experience, and contribution of African Americans in the United States. It emphasizes their struggle for freedom, civil rights and justice in a society that was initially designed by whites for whites. The course evolves within the recent but interesting field of African American Studies (Black Studies), one that questions the classical history of the United States. In that sense the course explores issues such as slavery, Reconstruction, racial segregation; and it also sheds light on the role and influence of key African American intellectual and political actors and activists, their movements and ideological affiliations and divergences, as well as the achievements of the broad and diverse Civil Rights movement. The course also probes recent issues, such as police brutality and systemic inequality.
- Créateur de cours: Salim Kerboua