Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Recommended Prerequisite: WRTG 2010.
Requirement Designation:
Diversity
Course Attribute:
Flexible Schedule
Description
Important writers of the African American literary tradition from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Brooks, Morrison, M. Walker, A. Walker, Hansberry, and the writers of the Black Arts Movement. Works and writers are approached in relation to the cultural, social, and historical background from which they emerged.