EN 341 - Early African American Literature

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Eastern Connecticut State University

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Description:

This course surveys some of the major works of African American literature produced before the publication of W.E.B.Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk in 1903.The course begins with a section on slave narrative and African American poetry, briefly reviews the representations of Black people in 19th-century literature by white people, and concludes with an examination of the major fiction and non-fiction of the second half of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on works from the 1890s.Authors include Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Harper, Dunbar, Washington, and Du Bois.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.easternct.edu/

Phone Number:

(860) 465-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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