Section Info: AFCNA-257-01

Course Title: African American Literature
Start Date: 08/30/2021 End Date: 12/13/2021
Term: Fall Semester 2021
Description: This course surveys Black literary production with special attention to the idea of genre as a choice of form made by Black writers from the antebellum era through the present to communicate critique, effect political change, and render new worlds. Structured around debates about the genre status of Black writing, this course introduces students to slave era texts by Harriet E. Wilson, David Walker, Phillis Wheatley; 20th century works by Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Amos Tutuola, Chester Himes, Bill Gunn, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara; and contemporary work by Saidiya Hartman, Octavia Butler, Jeremy O. Harris, and Rita Dove. Reading, writing, and critical viewership will be central to the course.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Kristen Wright             ktwright@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
08/30/2021 - 12/13/2021   Discussion   Tuesday and Thursday   03:15PM - 04:30PM   DWGT - Dwight Hall   202   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
None                    

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
AFCNA0001   AFCNA: Africana Studies major   This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor.  
AFCNA0001   AFCNA: Africana Studies minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
ENGL-257-01 African American Literature  
AFCNA-257-01 African American Literature  

Course Availability
Section status: Open     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 16     Available: 2     Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
Title: The Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley
Author: Wheatley, Phillis
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9780140424300
Publisher: Penguin
Required   15.00  
Title: Dutchman and the Slave
Author: Jones, LeRoi
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 0688210848
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Required   10.00  
Title: Funnyhouse of a Negro
Author: Kennedy, Adrienne
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 0573621667
Publisher:
Required   7.98  
Title: Kindred
Author: Butler, Octavia
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 0807083100
Publisher:
Required   15.99  
Title: The Coldest Winter Ever: A Novel
Author: Souljah, Sister
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 074327010X
Publisher:
Required   9.98  
Title: Fairview
Author: Drury, Jackie Sibblies
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 1559369523
Publisher:
Required   15.76  
Title: The Souls of Black Folk
Author: Du Bois, W.E.B.
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9780393973938
Publisher:
Required   19.37  
Title: Native Son
Author: Wright, Richard
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9780061148507
Publisher:
Required   18.99  
Title: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf
Author: Shange, Ntozake
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9781439186817
Publisher:
Required   12.00  
Title: Invisible Man
Author: Ellison, Ralph
Copyright:
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Volume:
ISBN: 9780679732761
Publisher: Vintage
Required   15.95  
Title: The Fire Next Time
Author: Baldwin, James
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 067974472X
Publisher:
Required   13.00  
Title: Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
Author: Jacobs, Harriet
Copyright:
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9780393976373
Publisher:
Required   10.00  

Additional Book Comments        
This is the complete book list for this class.