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Poetry
and Memoirs by 19th-Century British and American Writers
of African Descent
Fall
2000
Syllabus
useful addresses: Florence Boos, 319 EPB, florence-boos@uiowa.edu;
office hours, after class and Tuesdays 4-5.
texts: Peter Fryer, Black Britain; Norton Anthology of African-American
Literature; life accounts by Wedderburn, Prince, Seacole, Douglass,
and Jacobs. For the others I will give you handouts (Alfred Campbell,
Rachel Jackson, Elizabeth, Mattie Jackson).
| August 21st |
introduction |
| August 23rd |
historical background; readings in Black Britain, chapter
8 (pages 191-236); begin Robert Wedderburn, pp. 1-61. |
| British Writers of African Descent |
| August 28th |
Robert Wedderburn to end; Black Britain, chapter 7, "Pseudo-scientific
racism," pp. 165-90; chapter 9, pp. 237-46 |
| August 30th |
Mary Prince, 1 student report |
| September 4th |
Labor Day |
| September 6th |
Mary Prince
first internet journal due |
| September 11th |
Mary Seacole, 1 student report |
| September 13th |
Mary Seacole |
| African-American Poets
and Memoirists |
| September 18th |
poetry by Phillis Wheatley, George Horton, 1 student report |
| September 20th |
poetry by Ada Forten Grimke, James Whitfield, Alfred Campbell
second internet journal due |
| September 25th |
Frederick Douglass, 2 student reports |
| September 27th |
Douglass |
| October 2nd |
Harriet Jacobs, 2 student reports |
| October 4th |
Jacobs
third internet journal due |
| October 9th |
material from periodicals, 1 or 2 student reports |
| October 11th |
spirituals and work songs, 1 or 2 student reports
tentative one-page proposal for final 15 page paper due |
| October 16th |
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| October 18th |
Memoirs of Rachel Cox Jackson, Elizabeth, Mattie Jackson
fourth internet journal due |
| October 23rd |
William Wells Brown, 1 student report |
| October 25th |
Frances Harper, poems, 1 student report bibliography for final 15
page paper due |
| November 1st |
Frances Harper, essays |
| Post
Civil War, "Reconstruction," Jim Crow and Resistance |
| November 3rd |
historical background
Fifth internet journal due |
| November 6th |
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig, 1 student report |
| November 8th |
Anna Julia Cooper |
| November 13th |
Booker T. Washington, 1 student report |
| November 15th |
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Sixth internet journal due |
| November 27th |
Ida B. Wells, 1 student report |
| November 29th |
James Weldon Johnson, essay and poems
rough draft paper due |
| December 4th |
Du Bois, essays, 1 student report |
| December 6th |
Du Bois, poems |
| final meeting, final paper due. Students
will give a brief (3-5 min.) account of their projects. |
Summary of assignments:
- attendance and discussion; if you are absent for some health-related
reason, please hand me a note to this effect.
- 1 class report or presentation (5-10 mins.) OR annotated bibliography
on a research topic (4 pages, 10-15 items).
- Six 1-2 pp. internet journals. At least 3 should respond to some
aspect of others' postings. After posting, please print out, convert
to double-spaced format, correct and revise as needed, and hand to me
at the next class.
- 1 15 page paper (with proposal and bibliography in advance). You
must use a considerable number of non-Web materials in your research
(books, articles, encyclopedias, periodicals). For internet materials,
cite the author and date as well as the web address.
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