1. African American Literature
Origin
Slave
South America
Black Literature

2. African American Literature
Emphasis on Slave Narrative
Autobiographical note
Diaspora heritage- Africa
Post colonial literature

3. African American Literature
Early Literature:
Lucy Terry- wrote ballad- Bars Fight in 1746
Josiah Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855
Phillis Wheatley- ( )
Jupiter Hammon- ( )-the first published Black writer in America-"An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries“ poem

4. African American Literature
The first African-American novel -Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859)- her novel is about the difficulties for the freedom of Northern black people.
Slave Narrative

5. African American Literature
Slave Narrative
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Harriet Jacobs- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95) – ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’ (1845)

6. Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95)
Phillis Wheatley- ( )

7. African American Literature
Post-slavery era
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
original founders of NAACP in 1910.
collection of essays entitled ‘The Souls of Black Folk’
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
Up From Slavery (1901)

8. African American Literature
Jamaican Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), was a newspaper publisher, journalist, and activist for Pan Africanism
founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA)

9. African American Literature
Harlem Renaissance-1920 to 1940
Langston Hughes- ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’ in 1922
Zora Neale Hurston- Novelist- ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ (1937)

10. Langston Hughes-

11. African American Literature
Civil Rights Movement Era
Great Migration During World War II
Settled in Chicago
Richard Wright- Native Son (1940)
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison- Invisible man (1940)

12. Ralph Ellison
Richard Wright

13. African American Literature
Black Drama:
Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun
Amiri Baraka

14. African American Literature
Contemporary Black Literature
Toni Morrison- Beloved- Nobel Prize
Alice Walker- The Color Purple

15. Toni Morrison

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