非裔美国文学赏析

Part 1 The Development of African American Literature

? Early Literary Forms: Oral tradition, Folktales, and Spirituals

Oral tradition: Folklore; Black folktales

Spirituals

? Literary Writings in the 18th Century

Poems

Early Prose Writing and Slave Narrative

? Literary Writings in the 19th Century

The Ballads of the Enslaved Blacks

Abolitionist Writings

The Development of Slave Narrative

African American Novel

Literary Writings at the Turn of the 19th Century

? Literary Writings in the 20th Century

Harlem Renaissance (1920s and 1930s)

Urban Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism (1940s-1960s)

The Black Arts Movement (the mid-1960s-the mid 1970s)

African American Literature since the 1970s

Part 2 Reading and Writing about African American Literature

? Basic Approaches

? Examples of Reading and Writing about African American Literature

Reading and Writing about Fiction (Short Story and Novel)

Reading and Writing about Poetry

Reading and Writing about Play

Part 3 African American Literary Criticism

? A Brief Introduction

? The Development of African American Literary Criticism: A Survey

? A Textual Analysis of the Essays Written by African American Literary Writers and / or Critics

References

后记

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