#  English 176tm. Toni Morrison 

 



 Instructor: [Namwali Serpell](/people/namwali-serpell)  
Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location  
[Course Site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/129334)

 This course is a survey of the work of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, including most of her novels, a few nonfiction essays, and a short story. We will consider her literary antecedents; follow her influence on contemporaries and future writers; trace the social, historical, and political contexts and implications of her work; and explore the critical interventions she made in historiography and literary criticism. Throughout, we will focus on Morrison’s rich and complex aesthetic project: how it came into being; how it resonates with a great range of philosophical questions from epistemology to ethics; and how it changed over time.  
  
This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.



 



 

 See also:- [ 2023-24 ](/academic-year/2023-24)
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- [ Guided Elective: 1900-Present ](/meets-requirements/guided-elective-1900-2000)
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- [ Spring 2024 ](/term/spring-2023)