African American Literature to 1900
Class Information
Instructor: Vernon, Matthew
CRN: 32158
Time: MWF 1:10-2:00
GE Areas: American Cultures, Governance, and History Domestic Diversity Writing Experience
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.