| Title: | Extracted Worlds |
|---|---|
| Course Section Number: | BLS-270-02 |
| Department: | Black Studies |
| Description: | This course engages with contemporary literature and film by Black Francophone authors whose communities have been directly affected by the consequences of massive extractive policies and practices: rising sea levels, unfettered oil drilling, and forced migrations. We will ask ourselves the following question: how does one rebuild or reimagine "home", and resist mass destruction and exploitation in a context of such intense crisis and dispossession? In this class, you will analyze postcolonial literature and film from Cameroon, Congo, Haiti and Martinique through an environmental and ecocritical lens, while exploring more speculative genres such as climate fiction and science fiction. Throughout the semester, you will not only reflect on how reading fiction can contribute to the search for a way out of environmental racism, but you will also engage with more recent and decolonial trends of environmental studies that will expose you to less anthropocentric and more indigenous ecologies. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2025 |
| End Date: | May 10, 2025 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2025-05/08/2025 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Detchon, Room 211
|
| Faculty: | Papadopoulos, Juliette |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
|---|---|
| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 8 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
| Section Name/Title | Status | Dept. | Capacity |
Enrolled/ Available/ Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
BLS-270-02
(cross-listing)
Extracted Worlds |
OPEN | Black Studies | 20 | 3 / 12 / 0 |
|
ENS-202-03
(cross-listing)
Extracted Worlds |
OPEN | Environmental Studies | 20 | 2 / 12 / 0 |
|
FRE-277-01
(primary)
Extracted Worlds |
OPEN | French | 20 | 3 / 12 / 0 |