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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
 Subjects |
| North American Literature through its Texts |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | North American Literature through its Texts | Code | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| The Literature of Slavery and Freedom | On Slave Narratives and "The Land of Milk and Honey." (Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth) |
| The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism. | When Harlem Was in Vogue (1919-1940). (Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes). |
| Realism and Naturalism in Racist US. | The Protest Novel. (Richard Wright). |
| The Black Arts Movement. | The Sixties, Civil Rights Movement, and "Black is Beautiful." (James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka). |
| African American Drama. | On Dreams Deferred. (From Lorraine Hansberry to August Wilson). |
| African American Women's Literature since 1970. | Black Women Writers: From Mammies to Militants. (Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Taiye Selassi). |
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