ENGL 259

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Afro-American Literature I

Credit: 3 hours.

Historical and critical study of Afro-American literature in its social and cultural context from the beginning to 1915.

Same as AFRO 259 and CWL 259. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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

Cultural Studies - US Minority

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ENGL 259 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55608	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Section Info: Broadly speaking, this course will introduce you to the study of African American Literature. Our goal over the semester will be to draw a provisional map of African American literary production from the end of the eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth, from the Age of Revolutions to the World War I. Our storytelling will be guided by four principle frameworks: literary form and genre, intellectual and political history, community formation, and the relation between African American and other literary cultures and traditions. We will read letters, poems, sermons, songs, novels, stories, and texts that defy easy categorization. Throughout our discussions we will think about what’s “African American” about African American literature. Is it a set of political and social circumstances, the writer’s racial identity (self-identified or otherwise), a set of tropes or a style, an attitude and critical orientation, none of the above, all of the above? We’ll also think about this archive as doing a particular kind of work in the world that continues and resonates to this day. Writers for consideration include: Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Frances E.W. Harper, and W.E.B. Du Bois.