English 350A: African American Literature

MWF 10:00 -10:50
McClurg 116

Course materials:

• Syllabus

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• Assignment resources

  • Early texts: review essay

   

• Grading Standards

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Supplementary resources:

Authors and readings:

• Phillis Wheatley

  • Biography and works from Voices from the Gaps project at the University of Minnesota

• Jupiter Hammon

• Harriet Jacobs

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl at the University of Virginia hypertext project. This excellent resource contains not only the full text of the narrative, but also images and a timeline.

• Frederick Douglass

• David Walker

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

  • Photobiography site from University of Massachusetts Amherst; see also the collection of 850 photos

  • Digital DuBois at UMass Amherst; includes digital versions of many of DuBois' writings

  • FBI file on DuBois

• Pauline Hopkins

• Countee Cullen

  • Modern American Poets site with biography, critical works, and poems

• Langston Hughes

  • Modern American Poetry site with biography, critical works, and poems

• Jessie Fauset

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Richard Wright

  • Modern American Poetry site with biography, links, chronology, and critical essays

  • Documentary site with photos, chronology, and biography

• Ralph Ellison

  • Documentary site from PBS American Masters Series

  • Webliography site at UCLA, with chronology, images, criticism, works, and links

• James Baldwin

• Malcolm X

• Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Modern American Poetry site with biography, critical works, links, and poems

• Audre Lorde

  • Modern American Poetry site with biography, critical works, and links

• Sonia Sanchez

• Alice Walker

• Toni Morrison

• August Wilson

• Gayl Jones