ENGL 429 - Slavery and Labor in American Film and Literature

5 credit hours

An interdisciplinary study of the politics of work in America, both forced and free, and the literary and film treatments of these issues. Slave narratives, slave owner narratives, and labor texts, such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle will be considered, along with films such as Amistad, Matewan, and Wall Street. NW