ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature

The Black Radical Tradition VI: African American Modernism
With the end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, African Americans, no longer enslaved, at least theoretically, entered the modern world. This course examines African American literature from the end of the Civil War up to but not including the Harlem Renaissance. The central concern will be how these writers address the topic of race during this period. Authors will include Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton Griggs, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, and others.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): Two ENG courses at the 200 level or higher
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Repeatable for Credit: May be taken up to 3 times for credit if different topics.
Cross-listing(s):

CRES 336 -only when offered as “African American Modernism”

Notes:

Not all topics offered every year.
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Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).