African-American Literature

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Credits: 3 Prerequisite: EN 102 and a 200-level English course or permission of the Department Chair of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy A study of the major movements in the evolution of African-American literature from the eighteenth century to the present. It includes literary genres such as autobiography, fiction, poetry, and drama. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker