ENG 241 Black Writers in America

A consideration of Black writers from Dunbar and Chesnutt to the present. Study of Harlem Renaissance writers including Wright, Ellison, Hayden, Brooks, Tolson, Baldwin, Baraka, and the Black arts movement. Emphasis on the relation of the works to traditional images of Blacks in America and to themes found in American literature as a whole.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 222 The British Tradition II and ENG 238 American Experiences; requires no prerequisites when taken by a non-English major