Welcome to the
African
American Literature Web Pages of The George Washington
University
A
production of the students of
English
73.10 and 73.11, Fall 1998
The following are web pages
designed by students in Prof. Gayle Wald's Introduction to African
American
Literature courses at The George Washington University in Washington, DC,
in fall 1998. The focus of the pages is African American literature of
the18th through early 20th centuries. The pages range in topic from
focused
studies of African American writers' work on selected themes, to
investigations
of literary forms (e.g., spirituals, slave narratives, jeremiads), to
analyses
of the intersections of literary and social texts and practices, including
studies of abolitionism. Each page features images, links and text, and
each contains a bibliography of works cited for further reference. We hope
you find these pages useful and informative.
This web site was produced with the assistance of Noreen
O'Connor, a Ph.D. candidate in English at GWU. You may send comments or
feedback to the instructor or to individual authors.
"Your
country? How came it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here
we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of
story and song--soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious
land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness ... [and]
the gift of Spirit ... Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this
work and striving? Would America have been America without her Negro
people?
-W.E.B.
DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
(1903)
English
73.10:
Characteristics
of Fiction Versus Non-Fiction: Nat Turner's Confessions and
Frederick
Douglass' The Heroic Slave by Jessica Lynch, Erika Emeruwa,
and Jessica Jordan
Lifting
as We Climb by Rinad Bsharat, Conair Guilliames, and Ritu
Singh
Interpretations
of Slavery by Kim Griffin, Shawnta Rogers, and Jennifer
Buthmann
African
American Culture Through Oral Tradition by Maggie Papa, Amy Gerber,
and Abeer Mohamed
The
Beginnings of African American Literature by Rachel Barker and Angela
Bowman
Uplifting
Black Souls: The African American Jeremiad by Nneka Egbuonu, Michelle
DePass and Tracey Christian
The
Legacy of Perceptions of Interracial Relationships as Demonstrated in Late
19th- and Early 20th-Century Black Literature and Events by Jorge
Castro,
Cara Coffina, and Kay Turner
White
and Black Abolitionists' Newspapers Compared: William Lloyd Garrison's
"Liberator" & Frederick Douglass' "North Star" by Andrew
Benbasset-Miller,
Kemba Ford and Alexis Major
The
Political, Feminist, and Religious Views of Frances E.W. Harper, Phillis
Wheatley, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Caitlin Connolly, Stacia Casillo,
and Shenice Hackett
North
American Slavery vs. South American Slavery: A Comparative Look at
Frederick
Douglass and Juan Francisco Manzano by Iris Allen, Julian Tepper, and
Diana Stratigakis
The
Confined Voices of Female Slaves by Jeffrey Schaeffer, Eveline Kwok,
and Sara Holmes
Possessions
of Manhood: Themes of Identity From Equiano to Johnson by Vinny
Badolato,
Eli Gasinu, and Jody Valente
English
73.11:
A
Tradition of Spirituals by Dave Watermulder, J. Amber Hudlin, and
Ellie
Kaufman
Rights
of Leadership: The Propaganda of Race and Class During the Abolitionist
Movement by Devon Saunders, Renimah Al-Mattar, and Thomas
Shields
Anna
Julia Cooper by Barak Epstein, Nima Khomassi, and Gabrielle
Ben-Eli
Critiques
of Frederick Douglass' Work, from The Narrative to the North
Star by Elvia Christina Southerland, David Portnoy and Angela
Goodman
The
Influence of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on Writings From the
Harlem Renaissance by Ali Mandelblatt, Matthew Wexler, John
Kelly
Dunbar
& Harper: A Look at Two African American Poets of the 19th Century
by Tracee Brown and Jacob Balter
Slave
Women by Julie Jahnke, Cara Camacho, and Shaefona
Duette
Three
Women Writers: A Study in Virtue and Christianity of the 18th and 19th
centuries by Natalie Ojunga-Andrew, Maura Burke, and Jennifer
Musgrove
The
Appeal of David Walker by Brent Elrod, Yasmin Haziq, and Amy
Scott
Different
Voices, One Message: Literature as Resistance in the Anti-Slavery
Movement
by Goli Amiri, Naledi Ketlogetswe, and Amanda Crowell
The
Pursuit of Liberty: Parallels Between Women's Suffrage and the
Emancipation
of the Negro by Kamil Barker, Catherine Golden and Alta M.
Morton
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