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ENGL 2083
ENGL 2083 - African American Autobiography
African American “life writing” from early slave narratives to the present. Figures may include Douglass, Jacobs, DuBois, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Malcolm X, Angelou, and Walker. Attention to relation of personal to collective “voice” and the importance of autobiography to African American literary tradition in general.