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ENGL 363 - Gaines, Morrison, Wideman: Textualizing Orality and Literacy


This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
AAST, CAST
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
In Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong outlined a theory about changes in human thought processes that result from developments in speech, writing, and print. Beginning with this classic study, this course will focus closely on three contemporary novelists who continue the African American tradition's own ''play" between writing and orality. Examining Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, and John Edgar Wideman, we will study their post-Civil Rights (paradoxically) textual experiments in re-configuring and re-presenting "the black interior." American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. Johns
Consent of the Instructor Required? No
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled "Advanced Courses."

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