ASRC 6517 - [The Oprah Book Club and African American Literature] (crosslisted) AMST 6517 , ENGL 6740
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with AMST 4517 /ASRC 4517 .
R. Richardson.
The Oprah Winfrey Show reached a milestone in its production when it introduced the Oprah Book Club in. The Oprah Book club has strongly impacted African American literature in the course of its long history by highlighting a range of African American authors. This course will examine the work of some of the African American and African diasporan authors including Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Lalita Tadema, Ernest J. Gaines, Maya Angelou, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Pearl Cleage and draw on a range of critical and theoretical resources related to the Oprah Book Club archive, including its pedagogical outreach through technologies such as the internet, to discuss the impact of the Oprah Book Club on the genre of African American literature.
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