Professor Werner Sollors Tel. Matt Briones Tel. Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. Phillis Wheatley , Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley. Nat Turner , ed.
Titles underlined are also accessible electronically through the web.
One paper must concern itself with literature from before 1865. A list of suggested paper topics will be circulated in class. For those choosing this option the deadlines are October 2, October 16, November 6, November 27, and December 4. Texts are accessible on the web-posted syllabus by simply clicking underlined authors or titles. Students with a good reading knowledge in other languages may wish to work on texts written in Latin, French, Dutch, Portuguese, or Arabic.