Course details

Name: ENGL - 238

Title: BLACK WRITERS IN THE UNITED STATES: A SURVEY

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
MODALITY: HawkLive Hybrid. Students who cannot or do not want to come to campus in the Spring are advised to look for all-remote courses.

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.


Last updated on 2020-09-09 By Gonzalez Jeffrey (gonzalezje)

Schedule: Wednesday From 8:00 am To 10:30 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