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ENGL 337 African American Literature I: Slave Narrative & Early African American Literary Tradition (4)

This course is a study of the origins of African American literary and vernacular traditions. Formal and thematic analysis of this tradition in 18th century and Antebellum America (with some examination of Britain). A goal is to understand the influence of this tradition on the form and focus of contemporary African American Writers.


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