ENGL 55583 Seminar in Contemporary African-American Literature
This seminar provides graduate students with the opportunity to research and present theoretical approaches to representative contemporary fiction by African-Americans. Continuities will be established between theories shaped by the Black Arts Movement of the sixties and those shaped by post-modernist thinking. Representative writers may include Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison and Ernest Gaines. Student cannot receive credit for ENGL 55583 and ENGL 80583.