ENGL 8440 - Early African American Literature

Surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American prose, from 1760, the date of Briton Hammon’s Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings to 1903, the year of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3