ENGLIT 1230 - 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first half of this course begins by examining some of the major authors from the 1920s who were a part of what came to be known as the 'new negro renaissance' or 'Harlem renaissance,' such as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston. We will then study a range of modernist and naturalist writers of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Gwendolyn Brooks. In the second half of the course we will focus on several post-WWII writers that were associated with the civil rights and black arts movements, from the 1950s to the 1970s, including such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni cade Bambara. Finally, we will consider the recent wave of African American writers that emerged with the popularization, in the 1980s, of several new genres of African American literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

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