16.7 2nd and 3rd year Anne Neumann. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• know representative works from two centuries of writing by African-Americans;
• understand the basic historical and political context of African-American literature;
• see how literary canons alter and new academic disciplines arise;
• learn how one minority literature theorises both its own inter-relationship and its relation to the larger culture;
• explore how dominant cultures sometimes co-opt 'marginal' ones.

This subject is an introduction to African-American literature and its background, in relation to its own traditions and to the dominant European-American culture. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Baldwin J Another Country Penguin Brent L pseud Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harcourt Douglas F Narrative of the Life Penguin Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk Penguin Ellison R Invisible Man Random Hurston Z N The Hurston Reader Harper Melville H 'Benito Cereno', in Billy Budd and Other Stories Penguin Morrison T Beloved Dutton Stowe H B Uncle Tom's Cabin Norton Walker A The Color Purple Pockett Washington B T Up From Slavery Penguin Wilson H Our Nig Random House Wright R Native Son Harper Course reader available from the department 16.7 Anne Neumann. First semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• know representative works from two centuries of writing by African-Americans;
• understand the basic historical and political context of African-American literature;
• see how literary canons alter and new academic disciplines arise;
• learn how one minority literature theorises both its own inter-relationship and its relation to the larger culture; and
• explore how dominant cultures sometimes co-opt "marginal" ones.

This subject is an introduction to African-American literature and its background, in relation to its own traditions and to the dominant European-American culture. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Baldwin J Another Country Penguin Brent L pseud Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harcourt Douglas F Narrative of the Life Penguin Du Bois W E B The Souls of Black Folk Penguin Ellison R Invisible Man Random Hurston Z N The Hurston Reader Harper Melville H "Benito Cereno", in Billy Budd and Other Stories Penguin Morrison T Beloved Dutton Stowe H B Uncle Tom's Cabin Norton Walker A The Color Purple Pockett Washington B T Up From Slavery Penguin Wilson H Our Nig Random House Wright R Native Son Harper Course reader available from the department