Course details

Name: ENGL - 238

Title: BLACK WRITERS IN THE U.S.: A SURVEY

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
This survey course spans the 18th to the 20th centuries. We pay 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. Representative writers include Douglass, Jacobs, Washington, Chesnutt, Johnson, DuBois, Larsen, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, Clifton, and Butler.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• World Cultures (TE 7a)

Teaching Faculty: Gonzalez Jeffrey (gonzalezje)

Is course canceled: No