İDE226

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course will explore both African-American and US narratives. including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography and nonfiction to examine the storytelling that shapes and a range of genres, texts and media. After slavery (and abolition) effects (segregation and Jim Crow), the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration, civil rights movements (and feminist and Black Power iterations) to the contemporary Black Lives movement; this course will explore these narratives An African-American literature full of African memories, oral traditions, signification and folklore critically maps it within its tradition.

Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature Vol I, II
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give

The aim of this course is to explore the identities of people of African descent in the United States,
African-American literary traditions that have formed (and continue to form) their history and culture
to examine their writings, reflections and importance.

1. Students will understand how the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as notions of identity (especially gender, sexuality and class identities), security, equality, mobility and freedom also questions and analyzes how it is shaped.

Week 1: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom
Week 2: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom
Week 3: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance: Jim Crow and Post-Reconstruction Black Culture
Week 4: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance: Jim Crow and Post-Reconstruction Black Culture
Week 5: Harlem Renaissance and After 1920-1950
Week 6: Harlem Renaissance and After 1920-1950
Week 7: African Americans Abroad
Week 8: African Americans Abroad
Week 9: Black Power and Black Poetry 1960-2000; Black Feminist and women's literature, criticism and theory; 1990s and The "Third Renaissance" of the 2000s
Week 10: Black Power and Black Poetry 1960-2000; Black Feminist and women's literature, criticism and theory; 1990s and The "Third Renaissance" of the 2000s
Week 11: Literature in the Age of "Black Lives Matter"; Afrofuturisms
Week 12: Literature in the Age of "Black Lives Matter"; Afrofuturisms

Midterm 30 %
Final 40 %
Final Paper 30 %