ENG 319 - Survey of African American Literature

Institution:

Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

English

Description:

This course surveys the writing of African American authors from the Eighteenth Century to the present and stresses a discussion of literary figures as well as the thematic patterns which have distinguished the development of this literature. Course material includes works in a variety of genre: autobiography, slave narrative, poetry, short story, drama, and novel. Among the writers studied are Douglass, Grimke, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Dubois, Washington, Johnson, McKay, Hurston, Hughes, Toomer, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Gaines, and Walker.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.lincoln.edu

Phone Number:

(484) 365-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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