Introduction to African American and African Literary Theory

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Examination of novels, essays, and criticisms that offer incisive and influential methods and theories or even maps useful for understanding modern literature of the African Diaspora. Topics include questions of form, identity, audience, culture, movements, and other ideas that have inspired or animated African American and African Literature. Focus will range on post-colonial theory, negritude, double-consciousness, and essentialism, amongst others.