AFRCNA 1450 - AFRICANA CULTURAL MEMORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the historiography of Africana cultural memory (manifested through indicators of remembrance, commemoration, cultural identity, and transgenerational goals) and the ways people of African descent conceptualize, manage, interpret, broker, and transmit memory through literary genres (e.g., any stylized and creative product that begins as a text, such as fiction, essay, the short story, drama, poetry, film, and even music). Black cultural mythology translates what society intends when it addresses "memory" more as a collective sense of survivalist "mythology." The complexities of how a culture behaves toward the past, which also influences the present and future, are even more enhanced when a group has survived an era of global oppression. In Africana Studies, the primary critical framework for Africana cultural memory studies is Black cultural mythology, which is a theorization and philosophical consideration of the variables of legendary survival elevated to cyclical remembrance through storytelling and narrative.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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