Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** This course traces, through various genres and themes, African American literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. The course provides an overview of representations of African American identities. We will ask how the construction of identity shapes ideas about what it means to be African American. Texts include slave narratives, fiction, poetry, drama, and film. Attention is given to theories and critiques of African American literature and culture from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. ***** Also offered as ENGL 370.