AMS 377
The African-Amer Lit Tradition · 4 credits · Fall 2026
Requirements
Pre or Co-Requisite: Any ENH 200 Level Course or ENL 290.
About this course
A study of the African-American literary tradition engaging such issues as the struggle for human rights and dignity, the definition and representation of African-American culture and identity, and double consciousness. Readings may include works by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. For English majors or minors concentrating in literature, this course fulfills the requirements for American Literature, literature by women, American minorities, or third world writers, and power, identity, & difference. For linguistics, writing, and dramatic literature concentrators, this course counts as an elective in the major.
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