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Jul 01, 2025
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ENG 2300 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE: SURVEY
credits: 3.0
This survey of African-American literature spans the period from the early Colonial era to the present. Reading will begin with the early personal narrative of Olaudah Equiano and chart the evolution of a distinct African-American literary tradition giving special attention to nineteenth century slave narratives and abolitionist narratives, late nineteenth and early twentieth century narrative and poetry that explore the question of identity, and mid twentieth century narratives that lead to and run through the Civil Rights movement. Along with the writings of Equiano, we will cover the narratives and poetry of a variety of writers, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Objectives: A) Understand and be able to demonstrate strategies for close reading of individual texts; B) Identify major writers within specific historical and social contexts; C) Discuss views of alternative literary traditions; D) Trace the evolution of a particular literary tradition across epochs and within genres. Method of Instruction: Discussion and some lecture. Method of Evaluation: Three papers, class participation, and some in-class writing. Meets *WEP Distribution Requirement.
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