AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

WebCT
Week 4

Reading: Truth, pp. 246-47; Douglass, pp. 452-456; 474-483.
Writing: DISCUSSION #4; Research Projects.

Week 5:

Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro
Renaissance: 1865-1919
Reading: Douglass, continued; B.T. Washington, pp. 594-602; W.E.B. DuBois, pp. 699-708. Writing: DISCUSSION #5; PAPER 1 (topics to be given in WebCT Assignments).

Week 6

Reading: Washington, DuBois, continued.
Writing: DISCUSSION #6; Quiz; Research Projects.

Week 7

Reading: Chesnutt, pp. 624-632. Beg

in discussion of NOVEL: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, by Zora Neale Hurston. Writing: DISCUSSION #7;Research Projects.

SPRING BREAK: MAR. 4-12, 2006

Week 8

Reading: Chesnutt, continued; Dunbar, pp. 916-918;
Writing: DISCUSSION #8; Research Projects.

Week 9: Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940

Reading: Garvey, pp. 997-1000; Hurston, 1030-1033.
Complete the novel this week!
Writing: DISCUSSION #9. MID-TERM EXAM.

Week 10

Reading: Hurston, (continued); Langston Hughes, excerpts.
Writing: DISCUSSION #10; Quiz; Research Projects.

Week 11: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism (1940-1960)

Reading: Wright, p. 1436-71; Petry, 1497-1504; Hayden, excerpts.
Writing: Paper due (topics to be assigned). Research Projects.

Week 12

Reading: Ellison, excerpts; Walker, excerpts; Brooks, pp. 1625-1627.
Writing: Quiz. Research Projects.

Week 13: The Black Arts Movement: 1960-1975

Reading: King, pp. 1896-1908; Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones), excerpts; Giovanni, excerpts.

Week 14: Literature Since 1975

Reading: Angelou, pp. 2156-2158 and online poetry; Morrison, “Sula,” (online); Walker, pp. 2454-2457.