AFRO 259

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4
Early African American Literature and Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

Same as CWL 259 and ENGL 259. See ENGL 259.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

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

Cultural Studies - US Minority
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AFRO 259 class schedule data for spring 2022
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
50054
Lecture-Discussion
D
1:00PM -1:50PM
MWF
English Building
Freeburg, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/22-05/04/22
Degree Notes:
Cultural Studies - US Minority course.
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
SP22 AFRO 259 - This course surveys African American literature from the neoclassical poetry of Phyllis Wheatley to the sociological essays of W.E.B. DuBois. From the American Revolution to the Abolitionist movement to the Civil War and beyond, African American writers have used their voices to protest and imaginatively envision their conditions. In this course, we look at individual writers in their historical and political contexts, but also, we focus on the affective power of African American prose that arises from social reality of Black culture—spirituals, work songs, and storytelling. 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, William Wells Brown, 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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