Resistance and Reformation in Early African American Literature
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Overview
Subject area
ENGL
Catalog Number
340
Course Title
Resistance and Reformation in Early African American Literature
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Description
This course examines the ways in which early African American texts represent a tradition of re-sistance and reformation and contribute to an understanding of political, philosophical and religious beliefs and ideals in early African American literature. Students will examine oratory, letters, essays, slave narratives, poems, autobiographies, and fiction from the Atlantic Slave Trade to 1910. Readings include Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Frances E. Harper, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Martin Delany, William Wells Brown, and Ida B Wells-Barnett.
Typically Offered
All Terms
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
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Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
019528
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