Module Identifier | ENM3020 | |||||||||||
Module Title | AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELS AND DRAMA - AN INTRODUCTION | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Helena Grice | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||
Co-Requisite | ENM0120 , ENM0220 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | ||||||||||
Assessment |
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- demonstrate, in the written assignment, an understanding of the text(s) under review which is informed by an engagement with and understanding of relevant secondary reading
- demonstrate an awareness of the broader cultural and theoretical issues raised by the module
- demonstrate an ability to write competently about the texts with reference to their cultural and historical background
- produce organised, coherently argued and critically informed written work
- study a range of African American prose and drama texts and engage with relevant contextual and critical material
- appraise some tof the challenges to the monolithic version of Americanness if the post-war period
- examine the ways in which the texts selected for study engage with or embody the complex conditions which gave rise to the Civil Rights Movement
LeRoi Jones, "Dutchman" (1964)
August Wilson, "Fences", (1986)
2. Growing up in America
James Baldwin, "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (1953)
3. Black Fiction and Political Strategies 1
Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man", (1952)
James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time" (1963
?Eyes on the Prize?, Selected episodes TV documentary, see also The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4. Post War Drama by Women
Lorraine Hansberry, "A Raisin in the Sun", (1959)
5. Black Fiction and Political Strategies 2
Gloria Naylor, "The Women of Brewster Place" (1980)
Ann Petry, "The Street", (1946)
This module is at CQFW Level 7