Undergraduate Course: Black American Fiction (ENLI10341)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will provide a thorough introduction to African American fiction, from the nineteenth-century to the present day. All texts will be studied in both their socio-historical and theoretical contexts, and distinctive narrative patterns will be evaluated. Key areas of 'cultural' interest - including the "Harlem Renaissance" (1920's/30), the "Black Aesthetic" movement (1960's/70) - will be considered alongside broader social and political events: slavery and its abolition, post-Civil War "Reconstruction", segregation and "Jim Crow", Panafricanism, the Civil Rights Movement and others. Although the primary texts are all narrative prose fiction, we will also read poetry and non-fictional prose as supporting material. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to give a coherent account of the distinctive stylistic attributes of some black American fiction, and to be able to historicize these.
Students should be able to explain and employ key theoretical approaches which have been specifically applied to black American fiction.
Students should be able to account for the various formal innovations in black American fiction, and to relate them to broader American literature and culture.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Keith Hughes
Tel: (0131 6)50 3048
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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