AFRST-284 Introduction to African American Literature and Theory
How do we make sense of the long durée of African American literary history and scholarship from Early Atlantic literature into the present? This course introduces a set of critical concerns across African American literature and theory and meditates on ongoing concerns that are core to the discipline of Black thought. Students will read interdisciplinarily and across a variety of time periods around concepts of canon and genre, identity and consciousness, music and expressivity, and representation and realism. Thinkers will include: Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Angela Davis, Hoyt Fuller, Fred Moten, etc.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
LIT-284
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