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AFAM
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Intro to AFAM
This was the first day of class in which we learned about the creative works by people of African descent and how their works shared dissimilar and different themes, movements and structures. -
Black Colonial Poetry
We learned about black colonial poetry and discussed the writing styles of both Lucy Terry and Philis Wheatley as well as exploring vernacular traditions. -
African American Polemical Traditions
These traditions were based in the time period of the 1770s and the 1830s in which the american colonization society was founded in 1816 which proposed that free african americans should emigrate to africa. -
Douglass and Slave Narrative Traditions
We explored the different slave narrative traditions in the 18th century and how some writers weren't even slaves themselves and told it from a different perspective. Some authors wanted the readers to feel pity and others made the characters strong. -
Douglass Part 2
Many of Fredrick Douglass' writing had a sense of desire to his works the desire for freedom. -
Harriet Wilson
Harriet was most known for her book "Our Nig" and although that was one of her only known works to support herself she sold hair care products. -
Chestnut and Dunbar
These Two writers both wrote in the post bellum, pre-harlem era which had a liberation theology to it. -
Women's Era
We explored how black women intervened in the literary world and in social movements before the 20th century. -
Writing tips
This class we just went over writing tips because we had our first essay due later in the month. -
The Souls of Black Folk
This included a combination of historical,sociological,and spiritual perspective. -
Harlem Renaissance
Key concepts for postbellum pre-harlem were reviewed such and lynching,plantation traditions and eye dialect. -
Protest era
The three writing styles we learned about realism, naturalism, and modernism. -
Black Arts Era
We went over the works of those who really emphasized the black arts movement such as larry neal, and addison gayle.