CWL 259

Fall 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 21-Dec 6

Early African American Literature and Culture

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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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CWL 259 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55610	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	137 Henry Administration Bldg	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA23 CWL 259/AFRO 259/ ENGL 259 Early African American Lit - Christopher Freeburg: An introduction to the study of early African American literary and cultural production, ranging from the earliest writings by African descended people in British North America in the eighteenth century to the end of World War I. At each turn, we will situate texts in their cultural and historical contexts, attending not only to the specificity of a particular text's moment, but also to the forces of contingency and tradition at play in the construction of literary, cultural, and political communities. Throughout our discussions we will think about both the "African-ness" and "American-ness" of African American literature as collective and imaginative processes. Early African Americans wrote for a variety of reasons—philosophical, political, pleasurable, instrumental—and protesting slavery and racism was just one (albeit an important one) among many of those reasons. We will read letters, poems, sermons, songs, constitutions and bylaws for religious and civic organizations, stories, and texts that defy easy categorization. Writers may include Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Frances E.W. Harper, William Wells Brown, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Ida B. Wells.