ENGL - 214 African-American Literature

Credits: 3

Prerequisites
Completion of ENGL 101-ENGL 102.

Survey of African American literature from its origins through the twenty-first century. Emphasis on literary works, critical approaches, aesthetic movements, and socio-historical contexts emphasizing connections among representative works.

Authors may include Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, and others.