Literature 2155 - African American Autobiographical Narrative

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, SRE The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the autobiography as the core medium of black American literature for its first two centuries and as a vehicle of artistic and political power through the civil rights movement and into the modern era. Students begin with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and follow the evolution of the slave narrative through works by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. Using Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery as a bridge between the worlds of bondage and freedom, students continue their study through an examination of Langston Hughes's The Big Sea, RichardWright' s Black Boy, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, Assata Shakur's Assata, Maya Angelou' s All God'Children Need Traveling Shoes, and John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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