ENGL 559

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Seminar Afro-American Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of American literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 559 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43014	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	123 English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Title: Early Afro-Amer Print Culture Section Info: Topic Section R: Early African American Print Culture This course focuses on early African American print before the Civil War (from Phillis Wheatley to William Wells Brown) and the emergence of early African American print culture as a field in our own time. In examining print as both a cultural form and a marketable commodity, we will situate texts within a variety of distributional, technological, political, and discursive networks. Along the way, we'll look at narratives from former slaves, serial fiction, periodicals (Freedom's Journal, Colored American, Frederick Douglass's Paper, and the Anglo-African Magazine), state and national conventions. While the course will use the antebellum U.S. for its historical frame and African American literature for its case studies, its methodologies will be transferable to all literary fields. In this way, we will not only think about what the study of print culture might bring to early African American literary studies, but also what early African American literary studies might bring to print culture. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.