Course details

Name: ENGL - 238

Title: BLACK WRITERS IN THE U.S.

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This survey course spans the 18th to the 20th centuries. There will be significant attention devoted to the slave experience as portrayed in the slave narratives and to the historical understanding of slavery and racism. From this base, the course will focus on classic writers (in fiction, poetry, and essay) who represent the African-American tradition, and further on how that tradition is part of the American literary experience. The goal is to set literature and literary matters into a social and cultural context. The readings have not yet been selected but representative writers are: Douglass, Jacobs, Washington, Chesnutt, Johnson, DuBois, Wells-Barnet, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Petry. The specific reading list will be posted on BB.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 8:30 am To 9:45 am

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Class Issues (3d)
• World Cultures (TE 7a)

Teaching Faculty: ()

Is course canceled: No