Part 1 The Development of African American Literature
Early Literary Forms: Oral Tradition, Foiktales, and Spirituals
Oral Tradition: Folklore; Black Folktales
Spirituals
Literary Writings in the 1 8th Century
Poems
Early Prose Writing and Slave Narrative
Literary Writings in the 19th Century
The Ballads of the Enslaved Blacks
Abolitionist Writings
The Development of Slave Narrative
Slave Narrative Writers and Political Activists
African American Novel
Literary Writings at the Turn of the 19th Century
Literary Writings in the 20th Century
Harlem Renaissance 1920s and 1930s
Urban Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism 1940s-1960s
The Black Arts Movement the mid-1960s-the mid 1970s
African American Literature since the 1970s
Part 2 Reading and Writing about African American Literature
Basic Approaches
Examples of Reading and Writing about African American Literature
Reading and Writing about Fiction Short Story and Novel
Reading and Writing about Poetry
Reading and Writing about Play
Part 3 African American Literary Criticism
A Brief Introduction
The Development of African American Literary Criticism: A Survey
A Textual Analysis of the Essays Written by African American
Literary Writers and or Critics
References
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