Afro-American literature : the reconstruction of instruction / edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto for the Commission on the Literatures and Languages of America. [print]

Based on a two-week seminar held at Yale University in June 1977.

Afro-American literary history -- Teaching Afro-American literature : survey or tradition, the reconstruction of instruction Robert B. Stepto -- Rivers remembering their source : comparative studies in Black literary history -Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, and n egritude Melvin Dixon -- Preface to Blackness : text and pretext Henry-Louis Gates, Jr. -- Black figurative language -- The blues roots of contemporary Afro-American poetry Sherley Anne Williams -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent Henry-Louis Gates, Jr. -- Afro-American literature and folklore -- Are you a flying lark or a setting dove? Robert Hemenway -- Riffs and rituals : folklore in the work of Ralph Ellison Robert G. O'Meally -- Theory in practice -- Three studies of Frederick Douglass' Narrative (1845) -- Narration, authentication, and authorial control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845 Robert B. Stepto -- Frederick Douglass' 1845 Narrative : the text was meant to be preached Robert G. O'Meally -- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and American slave written by himself Henry-Louis Gates, Jr. -- Afro-American literature course designs -- Rethinking the Afro-American literature survey course -- Rethinking the Afro-American genre course -- Rethinking the interdisciplinary course embracing Afro-American literature.

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