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
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