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Dersin Kodu	Dersin Adı	Dersin Türü	Yıl	Yarıyıl	AKTS	Kredi
EILL409	African-American Literature	Seçmeli Ders Grubu	4	7	6.00	3.00

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Lisans

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Dersin Sunulduğu Dil

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Dersin Amacı

This course will survey African American literature from the 1700s to the present. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, we will examine the uneasy relationship between race and writing by asking: What role has writing by African Americans played in the long fight for political freedom and equality? How has that writing changed over time—stylistically or otherwise—to reflect the different political needs of its historical moment? How has that writing been shaped by different ways of thinking about race? How has race, in turn, been shaped or constructed by that writing? And how do representations of gender and sexuality participate in a literary construction of race? Though this course is a survey of African American literary self-representations, we will keep in mind how these representations respond to and interact with the “majority culture’s” efforts to define race in a different set of terms. We will focus throughout on literature as a site where this struggle over definition takes place—where African American writers have reappropriated and revised words and ideas that had been used to exclude them from both American literary history and America itself.

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Dersi Veren Öğretim GörevlisiGörevlileri

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Öğrenme Çıktıları

1	discuss, compare, and analyze a broad range of African American texts in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and criticism;
2	deduce and describe the arguments of literary texts and the political ramifications of literary techniques, genres, and productions;
3	practice and develop their skills in oral and written argumentation and the analysis of textual evidence.

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Öğrenim Türü

Birinci Öğretim

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Dersin Ön Koşulu Olan Dersler

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Ders İçin Önerilen Diğer Hususlar

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Dersin İçeriği

Course requirements include active engagement with the reading demonstrated through daily class participation and the writing of weekly discussion board posts, weekly in-class discussion questions, a group presentation, a midterm paper, and a final paper.

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Haftalık Ayrıntılı Ders İçeriği

Hafta	Teorik	[OgretimYontemVeTeknikleri]	[OnHazirlik]
1	Discuss Slavery and Abolition: Writing the Way to Freedom Phillis Wheatley, Preface, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, etc.”/ lecture and class discussions.
2	discuss Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (read preface and chapters 1–2 and 7–10) / Lecture and class discussions.
3	Discusss Reconstruction and Jim Crow: Representing the Race Tues: Booker T. Washington, from Up From Slavery: “A Slave among Slaves,” “The Atlanta Exposition Address” W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk: “The Forethought,” “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” “The Sorrow Songs” / lecture and class discussions.
4	The New Negro: Art for Art’s Sake? James Weldon Johnson, from Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (read only pages 901–902) Alain Locke, “The New Negro” W. E. B. Du Bois, “Criteria of Negro Art” James Weldon Johnson, “The Creation”/ Lecture and class discussions.
5	Shades of Realism: The Politics of Protest, the Politics of Art Tues: Richard Wright, “Blueprint for Negro Writing,” Native Son (pages 3-29)/ Lecture and class discussions.
6	Civil Rights and Black Arts: Acts of Solidarity: Gwendolyn Brooks, “kitchenette building,” “the mother” Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. / Lecture and class discussions.
7	Black Feminism and Beyond: Writing the Past, the Self, and the Future: Audre Lorde, “A Litany for Survival,” “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”/Lecture and class discussions.
8	Midterm
9	Toni Morrison, “Recitatif,” “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The AfroAmerican Presence in American Literature” / Lecture and class discussions.
10	Alice Walker, “Women,” “Everyday Use,” “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”/ Lecture and class discusssions.
11	James Baldwin, selection from The Fire Next Time Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool,” “Riot,” “Malcolm X”/ Lecture and class discusssions.
12	Hoyt Fuller, “Towards a Black Aesthetic” Addison Gayle, Introduction to The Black Aesthetic Amiri Baraka, “Black Art” Haki Madhubuti, “Malcolm Spoke/who listened?” Nikki Giovanni, “For Saundra,” “Nikki-Rosa” / lecture and class discussions.
13	Alain Locke, “The New Negro” W. E. B. Du Bois, “Criteria of Negro Art” James Weldon Johnson, “The Creation” / lecture and class discussions.
14	Q&A session.

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Ders Kitabı Malzemesi Önerilen Kaynaklar

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie McKay, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd Edition George S. Schuyler, Black No More

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Planlanan Öğrenme Aktiviteleri ve Metodları

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Değerlendirme

Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri	Adet	Değer
Ara Sınav	1	100
Toplam		100
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri	Adet	Değer
Final Sınavı	1	100
Toplam		100
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri		40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri		60

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Staj Durumu

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İş Yükü Hesaplaması

Etkinlikler	Sayısı	Süresi (saat)	Toplam İş Yükü (saat)
Ara Sınav	5	5	25
Final Sınavı	5	5	25
Ev Ödevi	10	10	100
Toplam İş Yükü (saat)			150

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Program ve Öğrenme Çıktıları İlişkisi

	PÇ 1	PÇ 2	PÇ 3	PÇ 4	PÇ 5	PÇ 6	PÇ 7	PÇ 8	PÇ 9	PÇ 10	PÇ 11	PÇ 12	PÇ 13	PÇ 14	PÇ 15
ÖÇ 1	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
ÖÇ 2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
ÖÇ 3	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5