LITR 5731: Seminar in American Multicultural Literature

• Syllabus for fall 2007
   
• Presentation schedule fall 2007
   
• Excerpts from Dr. King's "Dream" Speech
  
• Distribution of course texts as origins, classic, contemporary
  
• Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (excerpts)
  
• Declaration of Independence (excerpts)
  
• U. S. Constitution
  
• Jupiter Hammon, "An Evening Thought"
   
• Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise"
   
• Course syllabus for Spring Semester 2006
  

Lecture Notes for Minority Literature Offering, fall 2007

23 August: Introduction

Thursday, 30 August 2007: The Classic Slave Narratives

Thursday, 6 September: continue Classic Slave Narratives; begin Song of Solomon

Thursday, 13 September: continue Song of Solomon

Thursday, 20 September: conclude Song of Solomon

Thursday, 27 September: American Indian Origin Stories; begin Black Elk Speaks

Thursday, 4 October: Conclude Black Elk Speaks

Thursday, 11 October: begin Love Medicine

Thursday, 18 October: complete Love Medicine

Thursday, 25 October: "Virgin of Guadalupe"; begin Bless Me, Ultima

Thursday, 1 November: conclude Bless Me, Ultima

Thursday, 8 November: begin Woman Hollering Creek

Thursday, 15 November: conclude Woman Hollering Creek

Thursday, 29 November: The Best Little Boy in the World