AFR114
Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
Africana
BC
Subject code
AFR
Course Number
114
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
T. Pickens
Course Long Title
Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This introductory course traces the development of a distinct African American literary tradition from the Atlantic Slave Trade to 1910. Students examine music, orations, letters, poems, essays, slave narratives, autobiographies, fiction, and plays by Americans of African descent. The essential questions that shape this course include: What is the role of African American literature in the cultural identity and collective struggle of Black people? What themes, tropes, and forms connect these texts, authors, and movements into a coherent living tradition?
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(English: R, E, DL), Africana: Historical Persp.
INDS Program Relationship
IDAF - AFR Program, IDAM - AMST Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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