English 209 - American Texts and Contexts

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Colgate University

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L. Johnson, M. Stephens An introduction to literary study exploring the relations among texts and various contexts, both historical and critical. Focused on writing produced in this hemisphere, this course addresses questions of why, what, and how people read in the discipline of English. As "Visions and Revisions of the Antebellum South," this course includes th e Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave , Harriet Beecher Stowe ? Uncle Tom's Cab in, Mark Twai n's Adventures of Huckleberry F inn, Margaret Mitche ll's Gone with the Wind, and William Faulk ner's Absalom, Ab salom! As "African American Modernisms," this course fo cuses on The Souls of Bl ack Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon J ohnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Col ored Man, Claud e McKay's Home to Harlem, and the poetry and fiction of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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