AML 3682 Ribo Spring 2021

Of what possible use is literature in the face of a global pandemic and accelerating climate change? Why read books when the world increasingly resembles a dumpster fire? This class looks to the fantastic, the speculative, and the supernatural in art, music, performance, and literature by people of color to answer Christina Sharpe’s call to “Imagine otherwise. Remake the world.” Readings will include work by Octavia Butler, Michael Zapata, Stephen Graham Jones, Ted Chiang, N.K. Jemisin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ken Liu and more.