AFR 310 - Seminar.Black Literature

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Wellesley College

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Topic A: Three Writers of the Harlem Renaissance Cudjoe NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The Harlem Renaissance is a period associated with the rebirth of African-American literature and culture. Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston are three important novelists and poets of this period. This course examines selected works from their prose and poetry. Selected works will be examined against the background of the Harlem Renaissance. Prerequisite: One 200-level course of relevance to Africana Studies or permission of instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0 Topic B: Rhetoric and Revolution Cudjoe NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course examines the rhetoric and writing of Africana freedom fighters and the role prison plays as a weapon in the freedom struggle. Texts include Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom; Martin Luther King, Why We Can't Wait; Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth; The Autobiography of Malcolm X; and selections from Jack Mapanje' s Gathering Seaweeds: African Prison Writings . Prerequisite: One 200 level course of relevance to Africana Studies or permission of instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0 Topic C: Writers from the Diaspora Cudjoe NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course examines six selected novelists from the African Diaspora and the continent. They include Frede-rick Douglass, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass; Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery; Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood; Michel Maxwell Philip, Emmanuel Appadocca; Stephen Nathaniel Cobham, Rupert Gray; Ralph De Boissière , Crown Jewel ; Selwyn R. Cudjoe , Beyond Boundaries ; Bernard Bell , The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition ; and Gregory Wilson , Between Piracy and Justice: Liminality in Maxwell Philip ? Emmanuel Appadocca. The course concentrates on the commonality of themes and approaches to the ex-planation of similar phenomenon. The selected texts draw on and reflect the slave and colonial experience s. Prerequisite: One 200 level course of relevance to Africana Studies or permission of instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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