LAT 30.09 Listening to Voices from Slavery
This course surveys Latin texts that represent or embed slaves’ voices. We read inscriptions (including slave testimonies) and excerpts from literary texts (including publicly performed drama, historical narratives, courtroom speech, poetry, novel, and martyr narratives) alongside contemporary theoretical work, in order to explore the voices and the representations of slave experience. Students develop analytical tools to identify and evaluate fragmentary testimonies of slavery, and they gain a sense of the archive--and the particular value of literary sources--for studying the relationships of slavery.
Instructor
Stewart