Research-oriented and designed for upper-division English majors. Intensive examination of critical approaches, literary theory, or a special topic in literary and cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement of black artists and writers in the 1920s and 1930s. Centered in New York, the movement extended outward through international collaboration. Together we will be reading works by writers including Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston and as well as manifestos about the nature and function of black art. Course themes include migration and metropolitan living, primitivism and the avant garde, diaspora and exile, passing and identity, sexuality and secrecy, and the relationship between modern art and vernacular tradition. This class satisfies the Literatures in English requirement for the English major.

Book List:

Jean Toomer, Cane; James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Nella Larsen, Passing; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Requisites

• English 100 is prerequisite to English 190.

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