English Research Areas
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African American Literature
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African American Authors
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African American Fiction
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African American Women Writers AND 20th Century
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African American Literature AND Slave narratives
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African American Poetry
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Harlem Renaissance
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Slave Writings
African American Literature
From the English Department:
African-American literary studies designates both a distinct field of specialization within the English department and a necessarily dynamic area of interdisciplinary inquiry, the parameters of which are continually evolving. While retaining its longstanding support for African-American studies methodologies, including via faculty with joint appointments in the African-American World Studies program, the department also encourages approaches to African-American literature that situate it in other frameworks. Examples of these approaches include not only institutionalized sites such as American Studies and Women's Studies but also looser affiliations of faculty working in the often-intersecting domains of cultural, diaspora, postcolonial, border, new world, and globalization studies.
Collections and Companions
Contextual Resources
Databases
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Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present This link opens in a new window
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Umbra: Search African American History This link opens in a new window
Web Resources
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