TransfermaticENGL at Southwestern College

    ENGL 273 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

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    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    Focuses on African American literature in various genres from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Emphasizes the social, political, economic, historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts that define and advance the Africana oral and literary tradition in America. Studies writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. [D; CSU; UC]