Unit 4: Aesthetics of the Future
Week 17
Tuesday, January 17
- F. Abiola Irele, The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora, “1. The African Imagination”
- Nnedi Okorafor: “Africanfuturism defined”
- Plenary: African Futurism
Thursday, January 19 (am)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Binti
- Sections: African Futurism
Thursday, January 19 (pm)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Binti
- Section and Plenary: African Futurism
Week 18
Tuesday, January 24
- Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Excerpts from Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (2013)
- Section: Stereomodernism & self-fashioning
Thursday, January 26 (am)
- Introduction to Paper 3: Primary Source Analysis
- Prepare/read the primary sources in this document before class.
- Plenary: Primary Sources & the Work of the Historian
Thursday, January 26 (pm)
- Section: Source Analysis Workshop
Week 19
Tuesday, January 31
- Saidiya Hartman, “The Dead Book” from Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, pp. 136-153 (2007)
- Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” from Small Axe, pp. 1-14 (2008)
- Moodle Post on The Ambivalence of Saidiya Hartman
Thursday, February 2 (am)
- M. NourbeSe Philip, excerpts from Zong! (2008). Read poems 1-15 (pp. 3-26), poem 22 (p. 39), poem 24 (pp. 41-42), poem 26 (p. 45), Ventus (pp. 77-98), the Glossary and Manifest (pp. 183-186), and the first page of Notanda (p. 189).
- Phenderson Djèlí Clark, “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” from Fireside (2018)
- Moodle Post on What to Make of Zong!
Thursday, February 2 (pm)
- Plenary: Critical Fabulation, the Past, and the Future
Week 20
Tuesday, February 7
- Selamawit D. Terrefe, “Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation” (2012)
- Section: Jacolby Satterwhite, Finding Home Again [Van Every / Smith Galleries]
- Gallery Visit Times:
- Boyer, Jankovic, Wiemers [9:40am-10:05am]
- Sample, Wills [10:05am-10:30am]
- Fache, Pyle [10:30am-10:55am]
Thursday, February 9 (am)
- Shana Redmond, “Bandung Holograms: The Black Voice as Movement Technology,” Journal of Contemporary African Art 42–43 (2018): 58–71.
- Section: The Voice of the Future
Thursday, February 9 (pm)
- Suzanne Cusick, “You are in a place that is out of the world…”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror,” Journal of the American Musicological Association 2, no. 1 (2008)
- Plenary: Dubious Sonic Futures–Technology, Torture, and Resistance
