ENGL 395 - African-American Folklore

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course focuses on African-American folklore genres, including the folktale, trickster tales, legends and myths, riddles, proverbs, folk song, speech play, festivals, customs, folk beliefs, vernacular architecture, and other forms of oral and material folk traditions. There will be special emphasis on the connections of these cultural expressions to African traditions.

Offered (AS NEEDED)