BLST 110: Introduction to African American Literature: 1760-1910
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Course Description
Comprehensive survey, 1760-1910, from earliest folk roots to formal literary tradition. Same as ENGL 118. General Education: Understanding the Creative Arts course; Understanding U.S. Society course.
This course also fulfills the Cultural Production and Analysis and Diaspora and Transnational Studies major/minor theme requirements.
3 credit hours.
Past Texts Include
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frances Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man