ENGL-UA 185 - African American Literary Cultures

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New York University

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Description:

Surveys African Americans' engagement with literacy-as readers, writers, and purveyors of verbal-expressive materials-from the 18th century to the present. The focus is not simply on literary reflection of black people's experiences but on the various uses to which African American populations have put the modes of literacy to which they have had access. Considering such forms as verse and addresses from the Enlightenment and romantic periods, abolitionist tracts and uplift novels from the antebellum era and Reconstruction, realist and modernist literary fiction from the Harlem Renaissance and after, and such contemporary pop-cultural genres as slam poetry and cinematic depictions of the writing life, the course exposes Department of English students to African American literary culture in its most wide-ranging manifestations.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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