ENGL 330 - African Amer Poetry & Poetics

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Bowie State University

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Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course provides an in-depth exploration of selected African American poets and their impact on American culture. Poets studied might include Phyllis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka. The course also seeks to enlarge and complicate our sense of African American and African diasporic poetics by looking at poets who rarely show up in the literature curriculum including Melvin B. Tolson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, Kamau Brathwaite, Harryette Mullen, and Tracie Morris.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bowiestate.edu

Phone Number:

(301) 860-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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