ENGH 349: African American Literature: Reconstruction to 1903

ENGH 349-001: African American Literature: Reconsturction-1903
(Spring 2012)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R

Section Information for Spring 2012

This course surveys nineteenth century African American writers during the Reconstruction Era. In the class, we will focus on the representation of racial progress and uplift in post-Civil War black fiction and political writing. We discuss how the traditions in black writing during the era of Reconstruction anticipate concerns raised in W.E.B. DuBois' seminal work, Souls of Black Folk. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, Harriet Wilson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois.

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Credits: 3

Emphasizes several major writers from Reconstruction to beginning of 20th century, concluding with W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk . Concentrating on evolution of African American fiction and poetry as well as political and social discourses on "race," explores how authors such as Frances E.W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, and DuBois shaped the foundation for 20th-century African American literary art and aesthetics. Offered by English. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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