Course details

Name: ENGL - 238

Title: BLACK WRITERS IN THE UNITED STATES: A SURVEY

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2022

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 Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Lucille Clifton, and Octavia Butler.

Last updated on 2021-09-24 By Gonzalez Jeffrey (gonzalezje)

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 11:15 am To 12:30 pm

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