Course Description
Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature.
Athena Title
BLACK DIASPORA LIT
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
An understanding and appreciation of the literature and culture of African-American, African-Caribbean and African people with their common bonds and differences due to the three black communities' different historical encounter with the West. Course grade will be determined by objective tests on assigned texts and class work, one term paper and the final examination.
Topical Outline
Oral literature in Africa and in the African-American and African- Caribbean communities; early encounter of the African people with the West in Africa and in the New World; liberation from slavery, colonialism and racism; the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude and black nationalism and cultural identity; black people's concerns in today's global community; the search for black literary aesthetics.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus