AML 2600.001 Fall 2023 Montgomery

This liberal studies course introduces students to representative works in African-American Literature and Culture with a view to interrogating the close relationship between black writing and vernacular sources. We begin our survey with a focus on the slave narrative, then consider the symbolic acts of religion, speech, and music that undergird written texts. Not only will our overview cover major figures, texts, and concerns during successive historical moments, our readings direct attention to the search for freedom, wholeness, and self-identity in an American promised land.