EN 576 - African American Fiction

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An examination of African American fiction focusing on the 20th Century. Writers covered may include Charles Chestnut, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Earnest Gaines, Sterling Brown, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Edward P. Jones, and others. The emphasis will be on literary scholarship and interpretation.