AFR
220
Introduction to African American Literature
Spring 2019
Division II;
Cross-listed as AFR220 / AMST220 / ENGL220
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What does it mean, socially, culturally, historically, personally, and spiritually, to be African American? No single, simple answer suffices, but African American literature as a genre is defined by its ongoing engagement with this complex question. This course will examine a series of texts that in various ways epitomize the fraught literary grappling with the entailments of American blackness.
Readings will include texts by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed.
The Class:
Type: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 25
Class#: 3644
Limit: 20
Expected: 25
Class#: 3644
Requirements/Evaluation:
writing assignments for the course will total 20 pages, distributed over 3 papers
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preference:
none
Distributions:
Division II;
Distribution Notes:
meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST or AFR
Attributes:
AMST Arts in Context Electives; AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora; ENGL Literary Histories C
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AFR 220 - 01 (S)
SEM African American Literature
AFR 220 - 01 (S) SEM African American LiteratureDivision II;Cancelled3644
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