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This course explores affective, existential, and speculative formations of blackness in the early twenty-first century U.S. Using a wide array of literary and cultural texts produced within the past 7 years--ranging from novels to web series and poetry to the so-called "New R & B" -- we will consider how contemporary artists, writers, and critics both reflect and create spaces of feeling, experience, and knowing through, alongside, and against dominant racial paradigms. Throughout the semester, we will interrogate the very meaning and viability of the phrase "Contemporary African American Literature and Culture."