ENGL 12024 - Anti-Fascism: Art & Politics

Course Credit: 1
This course will examine anti-fascist social movements, focusing particularly on the histories and literatures of 20th century writers and artists engaged in anti-imperial, anti-fascist activism. We’ll examine the efforts European Surrealists took against French imperialism, the works of Czech writers who fought Nazi rule, the literature of Korean writers who resisted colonialism, and Black feminist poets opposing segregation and antiblack/white supremacist structures. The course will also explore the unsettled relationship between activism and art, looking closely at critical theory that examines the aesthetics of politics, and the politics of aesthetics. English majors and minors may take a second English 120xx for credit, but it will not count as one of the required electives for the major or the minor. [AH]