AHS (0611) 332 - American Social Protest Novel

Credits: 4

This course explores ways in which fiction is written as social protest. These narratives originate in eighteenth century fiction. Students will read fiction such as Sinclair’s The Jungle, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain, and Wright’s Native Son.