ENGL 2316 - African-American Literature

Arts & Sciences
This course surveys the stories, novels, memoirs and poetry of prominent African-American writers. Themes of race, culture, family, love, racism, and patriotism, as well as what it means to be black in America, are viewed through the literature of some of America’s most noted authors, including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove and Thomas Sayers Ellis.
credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1055 or ENGL 1060 or ENGL 1095 or ENGL 1100