Survey of African American Literature

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This course surveys the writing of African American authors from the Eighteenth Century to the present and stresses a discussion of literary figures as well as the thematic patterns which have distinguished the development of this literature. Course material includes works in a variety of genre: autobiography, slave narrative, poetry, short story, drama, and novel. Among the writers studied are Douglass, Grimke, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Dubois, Washington, Johnson, McKay, Hurston, Hughes, Toomer, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Gaines, and Walker. Prerequisite: ENG 1002