Courses

Survey of African American literature from its earliest expressions to the present. In order to identify the aesthetics of the African American literary tradition, the course material includes spirituals, slave narratives, poetry, drama, autobiography, fiction, and nonfiction. Grade of C-) Humanities, Literature

African American Literature from the 18th century to 1910.

A study of selected writing by and about people of African descent from the onset of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of Reconstruction. Genres may include folklore, petition, poetry, slave narrative, polemic, journalism, drama, and fiction-- addressed to white and nonwhite audiences, in the US or throughout the globe.

This course a survey of African American contributions to American literature from the earliest African American writings up to the Harlem Renaissance (1917), giving attention to all literary genres, and with a particular focus on the following literary forms and cultural influences: the Middle Passage, the Slave Narrative, the Antebellum period, and Reconstruction.

This course presents an intensive analysis of the works of major Black writers in terms of their sociopolitical thought, their role in the development of modem African-American literature, and their place in American and Western literary history from 1760 through the Harlem Renaissance.

A critical study of representative African American writers from the beginning to 1920, including slave narratives, autobiography, fiction and poetry.

Survey of African American literature from its earliest expressions to 1935. The course material includes spirituals, slave narratives, poetry, drama, autobiography, fiction, and nonfiction. Humanities, Literature, PW: Global Engagement

African American Literature from 1910 to the present.

A study of African Americans’ engagement with national and global culture and politics from the end of Reconstruction to the present, covering such movements as Realism, Black Arts, pan-Africanism, womanism, and postmodernism. A variety of verbal and narrative genres will be considered.

Cultural values from James Baldwin in 1950s, through black nationalist, civil rights, and black feminist movements, to contemporary writers such as Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison.