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 2015
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
Recommended Citation
Deo, Veena, "ENG1270-01.African-American Literatures.F15.Deo,Veena" (2015). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 5750.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/5750