Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos |
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Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos | Code | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 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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