African-American Literature

Catalog description

This course is designed as a survey of texts and discourses within the African-American literary tradition (1745-present). Students explore diverse genres (fiction, poetry, critical essays, and oratory) within the context of critical movements and discourses in social, cultural, and literary history. Students are particularly engaged in examining the manner in which African-American literary works reveal and respond to social and cultural ideologies, especially those that impact constructions of difference and the formation of identity, subjectivity, and/or the notion of the self. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite(s): EH 105 or EH 124.