ENGL 02216 - African American Literature Through Harlem Renaissance

Institution:

Rowan University

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Description:

This course examines African American literature from its beginnings in the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance. We will engage in close readings of seminal vernacular, autobiographical, poetic, creative, and critical texts, exploring the relationship between literary expression and the highly charged American social, cultural, and political histories that form its context. We will study African and African American writers, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Harper, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rowan.edu

Phone Number:

(856) 256-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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