ENGL 259

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Early African American Literature and Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

Historical and critical study of African-American literature in its social and cultural contexts 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 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55608	Lecture-Discussion	P	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	329 Davenport Hall	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Credit: 3 hours 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.