African American Literature: 1955 and Beyond (=ENG 282)

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This course introduces students to some of the literature African Americans produced during the crucial years of the modern civil rights movement. Works by Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Ishmael Reed, Al Young, Wanda Coleman, Malcolm X, and others will be studied alongside major connecting moments in the struggle for civil liberties, and for their introduction of new literary modes into the American canon. Satisfies the Diversity requirement of the English major. Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America). Counts as an elective in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.