Course details

Name: ENGL - 390

Title: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of black artists and writers in the 1920s and 1930s. This course will focus on the literature and culture of the period. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, the movement had a global reach and defined a new era in African American artistic, cultural, and intellectual history. Urbanization, industrialization, and migration set the stage for what Alain Locke termed the“New Negro.” This period marked the emergence of a distinctive current of a modern Black literature, involving a remarkable constellation of writers who sought to give expression to the African American experience in all its complex range. Works will be analyzed from sociohistorical and cultural perspectives, with an emphasis on class, gender, and racial identity. Writers to be studied may include Fauset, Hurston, Hughes, Johnson, Larsen, Locke, McKay, and Toomer.

Last updated on 2022-10-20 By Knight Melinda (knightm)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)

Is course canceled: No