2016-2017 Academic Bulletin 
    
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2016-2017 Academic Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 204 - Studies in African American Literature


Credits: 4
An examination of African American literary history that emphasizes the relations among works produced during a specific historical period and the changes and developments that establish boundaries between periods in literary history. Comparisons to other diverse traditions in U.S. literature and relationships between African American literature and the dominant Euro-U.S. tradition may also be featured. Sample topics include: From Slave Narrative to Reconstruction and the Age of Reaction, From Jim Crow-era Literature to the Literature of the Civil Rights Movement, African American Women’s Literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, African American Literary Naturalism to Modernism.

Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.