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English 181A - Fall, 2019
African American Literature to 1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Vernon, Matthew
CRN:
63800
Time:
MWF 10:00-10:50
Location:
146 Olson
Description
This class will provide a background to the construction of blackness in the West as a critical antecedent to the canon of early African-American literature. From there we will move to a more traditional account of African-American responses to that legacy and the ways in which the foundational work done by these writers laid the groundwork for contemporary debates about the nature of African-American letters.
