American Literature

Catalog description

Surveys American literary and historical texts representing diverse voices through the 1860s, including Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson; a variety of indigenous tales, speeches, and letters; colonial writers such as Columbus, Smith, Bradstreet, and Wheatley; captivity narratives from the African American slave experience, such as Equiano, Douglass, and Jacobs; and other canonical and under-represented texts and authors. May be offered in a distance-learning format. CAB GE C, Cal-GETC 3B. C-ID: ENGL 130.