Course details

Name: ENGL - 238

Title: BLACK WRITERS IN THE US

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
This course is a survey of writing in America by African and Afro-diasporic peoples that spans roughly the turn of the seventeenth century to the twenty first, and that focuses primarily on literature produced in the United States.

Students will be required to engage in analysis of texts with consideration of the history out of which these texts emerged. These include discussions regarding slavery and slave narratives, Jim Crow laws, social (in)justice, discrimination, racial violence, and more. Please be aware that these topics are part of the content of this course and which some readers may find difficult.

Specifically, this course will require students to reflect on how the denial of literacy has served as an instrument of discrimination and oppression against Africans and African Americans throughout a majority of the United States’s existence.

Authors may include Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Gloria Naylor, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and the fragments and letters of runaway slaves.

Last updated on 2022-10-19 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am

Graduation requirements:

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

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No