Faculty Name

Jermaine Singleton

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

ENG

Course Subject

ENG

Course Number

1270

Course Section

01

Course Title

African-American Literatures

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2016

Credits

4.00

Hamline Plan Letter

D, H

Area of Study

AFST, ENG, SOCJ

Course Description

Goals: To survey African-American literary tradition as influenced by oral and written forms of expression. To heighten the student's awareness of the particularity of African-American cultural expression as well as its connections with mainstream American writing. Content: Selections of texts may vary from semester to semester. Typically, the course will survey prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Selected works by such authors as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Childress. Taught: Annually. Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration. Credits: 4

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