Syllabus

January 20-22 Introduction; Phillis Wheatley

January 27-29 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

February 3-5 Hannah Crafts, The Bondswoman’s Narrative

February 10-12 Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman," Frances Harper, poems; Harriet Wilson, Our Nig

February 17-19 Our Nig; Ida B. Wells, "The Red Record"

February 24-26 Alice Nelson Dunbar, "April Is On the Way," Angelina Grimke, poems, Anne Spencer, poems

March 2-4 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

March 9-11 Ann Petry’s The Street

hand in paper bibliography and outline

spring break (suggested reading The Street)

March 23-25 first paper due; Gwendolyn Brooks

March 30 Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

April 1 slides of African-American art

April 6-8 Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

April 13-15 Toni Morrison, Beloved

April 20-22 Alice Walker, Meridian

May 4-6 poems by Rita Dove, Alice Walker

finals week: last meeting for brief summary of second paper (take home exam); second paper/take-home exam due