English 90bn. Black New England

Instructor: Thomas Dichter
Mondays, 3:00-5:00 pm | Location: Barker 211
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Enrollment: Limited to 15 students.

This course examines the rich archive of African American writing in and about New England. The study of African American literature often focuses on the rural South and the urban North (especially such metropolises as New York and Chicago). Yet African Americans have been living and writing in New England since the colonial era. This course reorients conventional geographies of African American literature while also offering an alternative perspective on the New England literary tradition. Authors will include: Ann Plato, Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Harriet Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Ann Petry, Malcolm X, and the Combahee River Collective.