ENGL 460

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Literature of American Minorities

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring literary expressions of minority experience in America.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42979	Lecture-Discussion	1G	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	149 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA24 ENGL 460 - Literature of American Minorities - Christopher Freeburg - Nineteenth-Century American Writers in the Black Radical Imagination - Critics over the decades have distinguished Henry James, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain’s novels as American classics from the nineteenth century. Black writers like Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, who also wrote American classics in the twentieth century, studied and admired their nineteenth-century predecessors. In fact, the discussions and debates between these black and white generations form an important part of American literary history. This course explores the relationship between classic American writers of 1800s and the black writers that both admired and criticized them as they shaped their own vision of American writing. There will be short weekly writing assignments as well as two papers. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	43577	Lecture-Discussion	1U	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	149 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA24 ENGL 460 - Literature of American Minorities - Christopher Freeburg - Nineteenth-Century American Writers in the Black Radical Imagination - Critics over the decades have distinguished Henry James, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain’s novels as American classics from the nineteenth century. Black writers like Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, who also wrote American classics in the twentieth century, studied and admired their nineteenth-century predecessors. In fact, the discussions and debates between these black and white generations form an important part of American literary history. This course explores the relationship between classic American writers of 1800s and the black writers that both admired and criticized them as they shaped their own vision of American writing. There will be short weekly writing assignments as well as two papers. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.