Course details
Name: ENGL - 501
Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Section: 02
Semester: Spring - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of Black artists and writers in the 1920s and 1930s. 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. Authors to be studied include Du Bois, Fauset, Harper, Hurston, Hughes, G. D. Johnson, J. W. Johnson, McKay, Toomer, and White, among others. Class presentations and a seminar research paper will be required.
Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Ethnic Studies (3b)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Graduate (BA/MA)
Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)
Is course canceled: No