CEI 518 - Literature of American Slavery

Students will read and analyze a wide range of literature: novels, slavery narratives, spirituals, poetry, abolitionist essays, and oral histories. The literature will come from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries including works such as Douglass’s Narrative of his Life, Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Melville’s Benito Cereno, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Hurmence’s Before Freedom, and Morrison’s Beloved. These and additional works will invite discussion of social, moral, economic, and political issues related to slavery. For more information, visit http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~shbrown/

3 credits