1. . DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY, SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS Knowledge & Understanding

2. DESCRIBE THE WAYS IN WHICH SOCIO-HISTORIC CONDITIONS RELATE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Analysis

3. SYNTHESISE PRIMARY AND CRITICAL MATERIAL IN A SUSTAINED ARGUMENT
Enquiry

4. SUMMARISE THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROSE OR POETRY
Communication

5. ILLUSTRATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY CONTEXT EMPLOYING CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL MATERIALS
Learning

1x critical analysis (1,000 words) [LO: 3, 5] (Mid-Term)
1 x essay (3000 words) [LO 1, 2, 5] (Final Essay)
Key Information Set Data
100% Coursework

This module will survey African-American literature from its early beginnings in slavery through its following eras of post-slavery, great migration, Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights era, and into contemporary innovations such as Afrofuturism. The texts studied on this module will show how African-American identity and history has been represented in literature and will be supported by critical theory that explores the construction of identity, society and relationship with history, African ontologies, Western philosophies, and culture.

There will be a programme of twelve three-hour workshops and tutorials related to the literary texts, with further individual tutorials to support independent research. Students will be expected to prepare for classes by reading of both the primary and set secondary reading.

W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921), “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) + Short Stories
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)
Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
bell hooks : ‘Postmodern Blackness’ (1990)
Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge (1995)

VLE, Library