ENGL 433 - The African-American Novel

3 Credits
Three hours per week.

This course is a study of the historical development of the African-American novel in terms of form and function. It gives the student an overview of the corpus of novels written by African-Americans and of critical theories that have governed and evolved from them. The course focuses on major African-American novelists: Chesnutt, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, Alice Walker, Naylor, and others.

Offered (OFFERED AS NEEDED).