AFR 388
"The Black Unicorn: Audre (Lorde) as Avatar"
Spring 2024
(also offered Fall 2023)
Division II
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
This course is a deep and expansive dive into Black lesbian feminist socialist warrior mother poet Audre Lorde’s transoceanic poetic work The Black Unicorn. Guided by Lorde’s vision that her poems would not only offer beautiful images to readers but teach readers how to “re-feel” their own capacity for being alive, this course will include weekly opportunities for reflective writing prompted by Lorde’s work, and real-time engagement with a wide range of community members beyond Williams who are inspired by Lorde’s work. Reflective writing, as I use it, is a technology for participants to use writing to gain clarity on their own internal life, which is different from writing to demonstrate knowledge or to create beauty in the world. The fall and spring sections of the course will focus on different poems in The Black Unicorn, offering students either a fall, spring, or year-long journey into this extraordinary collection.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3967
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3967
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Weekly reflective writing, a mid-term assignment asking you to create a self-care/political warfare resource that is shareable with other students and the world, and a final assignment involving the facilitation of a workshop for a community of your own accountability (with 1 or more real-time participants) drawing on at least one poem from The Black Unicorn. Evaluation based completely on participation in the workshops and the completion of the mid-term and final assignments.
Prerequisites:
None
Enrollment Preferences:
Should the course be overenrolled, preference will be given to Africana Studies students.
Distributions:
Divison II
Attributes:
AFR Theories, Methods, and Poetics
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AFR 388 - 01 (S) SEM The Black Unicorn: Andre Lorde
AFR 388 - 01 (S) SEM The Black Unicorn: Andre LordeDivision IICancelled3967