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Topic: African American Literature

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  Literature    American  
  African    African American History  
  African American culture    African American families  
  African American Art    African American Book  
  African American authors    African American artists  
  African American man    African American slavery  

 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

It examines African-American literature through four periods: Slavery, The Civil War and Reconstruction, The Harlem Renaissance, and The Contemporary Period.
TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE I: African American Literature from Slavery to the Harlem Renaissance This course aims to trace the development of African American literature from the days of slavery through approximately 1945.
With overviews of the people, places and times of Harlem in the 1920's, this work explains the transformation of African American literature from dialect writings to novels of cultural pride and protest.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

World Literature is a course designed to expose students to a wide range of cultures and the literature which helps us to understand those societies, ranging from Renaissance England and France to the modern Jewish and African-American experiences to China, Russia, and the Middle East.
African-American Literature and Culture Explores the works of African-American writers from the Colonial period to the present and examines a variety of cultural constructs that have fundamentally shaped the African-American literary tradition.
The African American and African Studies major with a concentration in literatures introduces students to literary texts and criticism produced throughout the African Diaspora.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Mosaic was founded with the goals of exposing readers to the wealth of literature that is being produced by African American and Latino writers, showcasing new voices, and honestly critiquing contemporary literary production.
African-American literature continually features moments of journey and places of refuge, literary images which produce a transition from rootlessness to rootedness for both the author and the protagonist.
This reading course centers on African-American literature from nineteenth century slave narratives to the poetry and fiction of the Harlem Renaissance.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

African, American and Asian studies; Art history and Manuscript studies; Literature and the Sciences are also well represented.
EDU ) is an assistant professor of English at the University of Akron with teaching and research interests in the Bildungsromane, Postcolonial African and Caribbean literatures, African American literature, and World literatures.
African American Literature Online - annotated bibliography attempts to provide "a comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century.
 
 
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