ENGL 338 - African American Literature to 1940

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: FSWI 101 or ENGL 111
A survey of African American poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from the beginnings of the literary tradition through 1940, with emphasis on such genres and movements as the slave narrative, dialect literature, racial polemic, and the Harlem Renaissance. Authors studied will include Wheatley, Douglass, Harper, Du Bois, Chesnutt, Larsen, Hurston, and Hughes.