AFRAM 214 , Spring 2004
Survey of Afro-American Literature

Schedule

Course Schedule

Week 1--The Literature of Slavery and Freedom, 1746-1865
T, 3/30           
Introduction, New Yorker handout on Wheatley

TH, 4/1     
[Background reading: "The Literature of Slavery and Freedom (1746-1865)" (151)] Phyllis Wheatley "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (216); “To the University of Cambridge in New England” (219); "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (219); "To the Right Honourable William . . ." (221-2); "To Samson Occum" (225); Jupiter Hammon “Address to Phyllis Wheatley” (165)

F, 4/2           
Group Meeting Day

Week 2
T, 4/6     
David Walker "Appeal in Four Articles" (227-38); Maria Stewart "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality" (251); Rita Dove “David Walker” (2613)

TH, 4/8     
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (387--452)

F, 4/9           
Group Meeting Day

Week 3
T, 4/13           
Frederick Douglass, Cont.

TH, 4/15     
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (280-315)

F, 4/16     
AFRAM 214 list: Library Workshop, Suzzallo Instruction Room, 1st Floor Suzzallo

Week 4--Literature of Reconstruction, 1865-1919
T, 4/20     
Harriet Jacobs, Cont; Frances Harper, “Eliza Harris” (495), “Appeal to My Country Women” (504), “Women’s Political Future” (518)

TH, 4/22     
[Background: "Literature of Reconstruction, 1865-1919" (541-54)] Charles Chesnutt "The Goophered Grapevine" (604-612), "The Wife of His Youth" (624-632)

F, 4/23     
ENG 258 and Add Code list: Library Workshop, Suzzallo Instruction Room, 1st Floor Suzzallo
     
Week 5--Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940
T, 4/27     
W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk, selections (692-699)
[Background: "Harlem Renaissance, 1919-40)” (953-62)] Alain Locke "The New Negro" (984-93), Langston Hughes “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1311-1315)

TH, 4/29      
Langston Hughes “Jazzonia” (1293), “Weary Blues” (1294), “Afro-American Fragment” (1301), “Negro Servant” (1930); Sterling Brown “Strong Men” (1252); Claude McKay "If We Must Die" (1007)

F, 4/30      
Group Meeting Day

Week 6
T, 5/4     
Marita Bonner “On Being Young—A Woman—And Colored” (1244-7); Zora Neale Hurston "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" (1030-3)

TH, 5/6           
Nella Larsen Quicksand (1086-1168)

F, 5/7     
Annotated Bibliography Assignment due (4-5 pages) by 3:30 in Ellen Palms’s office, Padelford B505

Week 7--Realism, Naturalism and Modernism, 1940-1960
T, 5/11     
[Background: Realism, Naturalism and Modernism, 1940-1960” (1355-68)” Richard Wright "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" (1411-9); Anne Petry, "Like A Winding Sheet" (1497-1504)

TH, 5/13     
James Baldwin "Sonny's Blues" (1728-50)

F, 5/14     
Group Meeting Day

Week 8--The Black Arts Era, 1960-1975
T, 5/18      
[Background: "The Black Arts Movement, 1960-1970" (1831-50] Amiri Baraka "Black Art" (1943); Ishmael Reed “New Hoo-Doo Manifesto” (2062-6); Haki Mahubuti "Malcolm Spoke/ who listened?" (2093-94); Audre Lorde “Coal” (1922), “Poetry is Not a Luxery” (1924-6)

TH, 5/20     
Alice Walker "Everyday Use" (2437-43); Sonia Sanchez "homecoming" (1964); Nikki Giovanni "Nikki-Rosa" (2098)

F, 5/21     
Group Meeting Day

Week 9—Post Civil Rights Generation, 1970-Present
T, 5/25           
[Background: "Literature Since 1970" (2127-39)] Andrea Lee Sarah Phillips

TH, 5/27     
Sarah Phillips, Cont.

F, 5/28           
Group Meeting Day

Week 10
T, 6/1           
Paul Beatty White Boy Shuffle

TH, 6/3           
White Boy shuffle, Cont.
Final Paper (6 pages) due Tuesday, June 8th, at 3:30 in Ellen Palms’ Office, B505 Padelford