AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Provides foundations in the study of African American literature, beginning with early African literature and the Middle Passage, and then focusing on African American writing through the Romantic, Realist, Modernist, and contemporary periods in North America. Explores the legacy of slavery in the U.S. and the intersections of visual arts, music, and film with African American literary production in North America. Prerequisite: ENGL-102 or ENGL-109 .