2014-2015 University Catalog 
  
2014-2015 University Catalog

ENGH 349 - African American Literature: Reconstruction to 1903

Credits: 3 (NR)
Emphasizes several major writers from Reconstruction to beginning of 20th century, concluding with W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Concentrating on evolution of African American fiction and poetry as well as political and social discourses on “race,” explores how authors such as Frances E.W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, and DuBois shaped the foundation for 20th-century African American literary art and aesthetics.

Equivalent to ENGL 370 (2010-2011 Catalog)

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0