ENGL 365 - African-American Literature

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A focused engagement with the African-American literary tradition, from its beginnings in the late 18th century through its powerful assertions in the late 20th. Such major forms and periods as the slave narrative, the autobiography, the Harlem Renaissance, naturalism and existentialism, the Black Arts Movement, and the contemporary novel are emphasized. Standard authors include Douglass, Jacobs, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker. Conner.