CWL 259

Fall 2016

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Afro-American Literature I
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as AFRO 259 and ENGL 259. See ENGL 259.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - US Minority
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
34407
Lecture-Discussion
D
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
131 English Building
Bascom, B
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/16-12/07/16
Degree Notes:
US Minority Culture(s) course.
55610
Lecture-Discussion
Q
12:30PM -1:45PM
TR
115 English Building
Freeburg, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/16-12/07/16
Degree Notes:
US Minority Culture(s) course.
Section Info:
This course surveys African American literature from the antebellum slave narratives to the essays of W.E.B. DuBois. In this course, we look at individual writers in their historical and political contexts, but also, we focus on the spiritual and affective power of African American prose. More importantly, the literary and sociopolitical appeal of African American literature from these early periods has been continuously drawn upon by social movements of the last fifty years. Thus, through close readings of writers like Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, and Ida B. Wells in context, students in this course will come away with a solid background in early African American literature and culture as well as its myriad of influences on current discussions of social inequality in the U.S.
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