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Jul 03, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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ENG 100/141 - Introduction to African American Literature3 Credits
Offered periodically or as needed
This course will offer an introduction to some of the central texts, themes and controversies in African American literature. We will cover a broad historical period - from the astonishing late eighteenth-century poetry of the teenager Phillis Wheatley, to the exuberant twenty-first-century work of Ross Gay and Amanda Gorman. And we will read with an eye toward both understanding historical contexts and achieving an interpretive framework with which to think about African American culture and its relation to American culture as a whole. Our studies will necessarily demand that we think about the relationship of more traditional models of literary history to alternate literary forms (such as those found in folk tales, the vernacular tradition, etc.), the process of canon formation, as well as broader questions of identity politics.
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities
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