McCaskill, Barbara
TR 2 :20 PM
Park Hall 0126
From the roots of African American literature in oral expression--work songs, folktales, the spirituals or sorrow songs--to the experimentation of the twenty-first century's Darkroom Collective and Cave Canem poets, this class on the Development of African American Literature will cover four centuries of African American literary production. You can expect short, graded, in-class writing assignments, as well as a collaborative assignment in which you will work on a contribution for the Civil Rights Digital Library version 2.0 reboot. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature will be our main text, and we will read and dscuss the Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison's groundbeaking novel Song of Solomon (1977) in entirety.