This course traces the directions of African-American literature from the slave narrative through the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary fiction; drama; and poetry. Writers such as Frederick Douglass; Jean Toomer; Zora Neale Hurston; Langston Hughes; Richard Wright; Ralph Ellison; Lorraine Hansberry; James Baldwin; Alice Walker; and Toni Morrison are included.
ENGL 434: African-American Literature
Department
Degree Attributes
CoB: Humanities,
SoAD: Humanities-'Other'