ENGLIT 1225 - 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover a wide range of materials, beginning with the late eighteenth-century poetry and prose of authors such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano and ending with Civil War, reconstruction, or gilded-age authors such as William wells brown, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, or Paul Laurence Dunbar. Readings will include a variety of different genres of writing (slave narratives, poetry, drama, fictive and non-fictive prose) as well as pay passing attention to the significant African American intellectual and cultural movements that had a role in shaping these various literary productions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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