EGL 406 - Sr. Seminar (Spring): The World According to Toni Morrison

Course Units: 1

(Spring; Tuon) In this seminar, we will read major works of one of the most important contemporary authors, Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and examine the value system embedded in the world she has created since her first publication in 1970. Topics include: slavery and its legacy; institutionalized and internalized racism; ancestors and the Great Mother; female friendship; race and masculinity; the use of the fantastic; ghosts and haunting; migration, identity and home. Possible texts: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, A Mercy, Home, God Help the Child. Common Curriculum CC: HUL, WS