AML 3271 African American Literature
Survey 2 (1940 - present)
Outside texts informing/inspiring this course

This course owes its inspiration and rationale to a number of texts which, and authors whom, will be mentioned in the course, but may or may not actually be read. Guiding insights and concepts offered by (in no particular order):

• Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
• Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
• Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings, 1972-1977
• Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
• Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
• Robert B. Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
• bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
• Mark A Reid, PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture
• R.B. Kershner, The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction
• Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
• Claude J. Summers, editor, The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, From Antiquity to the Present