HIST 482
Fictions of African-American History
Last Offered Fall 2014
Division II
Writing Skills
Cross-listed
AFR 482
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
This course examines the form and function of African-American narratives with particular attention to written texts pertaining to the enslavement and freedom of African Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. We will explore the role of books, writing, and reading in the African American South, where the acts of reading and writing had been illegal throughout the Colonial and Antebellum Era.
In the course, we will read both historical and fictional narratives that raise explicitly the problems of writing African-American history.
In the first part of the course, we will discuss selected texts (fiction, narrative, and historiography) from the antebellum era in order to schematize the literature of slavery. In the second half of the course, we will take up the discourse of freedom that followed the Emancipation Proclamation. Readings will include works by Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, Harriet Wilson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton Griggs. In addition, we will read historiography on African American slavery, freedom, and urbanization.
The Class:
Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 1245
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 1245
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
weekly paper or critique
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
History majors and Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AFR 482 Division II HIST 482 Division II
AFR 482 Division II HIST 482 Division II
Attributes:
AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
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HIST 482 - TUT Fictions of Afr-Amer History
HIST 482 TUT Fictions of Afr-Amer HistoryDivision II Writing SkillsNot offered
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