ENGLISH 252: Spatial Thinking Through Black Writing (URBANST 158)

Course Description

This class will introduce students to various spatial theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Joseph Frank, Michel Foucault, etc. along with concepts such as spatial traversal, means of locomotion, and spatial morphologies through the novels and short stories of Black writers worldwide, including James Baldwin, Zadie Smith, Sam Selvon, Walter Moseley, Richard Wright, Chinua Achebe, Ivan Vladislavic, Naguib Mahfouz, and others.