Chapter One: An Overview of the African American Literatureviewed

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The Objectives of the Course

The objective of this course is to demonstrate the way the concept of Orality is integrated within the field of the African American Modernist literature. To be precise, this course follows four major objectives:

1. To provide an introduction to modernism, to the study of the African American literature and its relation to Ebonics and oral Black culture.

2. To combine Ebonics as a dialect with the Standard English within African American literature

3. To exhibit the importance of oral culture in the Afro American Modernist literary writings

4. To depict how the African American literature contributes to the persistence of the Black oral heritage.

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