Spring 2025
ENGLISH 190 005 - SEM 005
Research Seminar
Harlem Renaissance
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
-1
Enrolled: 18
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 17
Waitlist Max: 5
Open Reserved Seats:
1 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission
Hours & Workload
9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.
Other classes by Bryan Wagner
Course Catalog Description
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.
Class Description
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. We will be reading together works by writers like Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston as well as manifestos on 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.
Class Notes
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper Collins)
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Penguin)
Nella Larsen, Passing (Penguin)
Jean Toomer, Cane (Liveright)
This course satisfies the Literatures in English major requirement
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James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Penguin)
Nella Larsen, Passing (Penguin)
Jean Toomer, Cane (Liveright)
This course satisfies the Literatures in English major requirement
show more
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper Collins)
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Penguin)
Nella Larsen, Passing (Penguin)
Jean Toomer, Cane (Liveright)
This course satisfies the Literatures in English major requirement
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements show less
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Penguin)
Nella Larsen, Passing (Penguin)
Jean Toomer, Cane (Liveright)
This course satisfies the Literatures in English major requirement
https://english.berkeley.edu/major-requirements show less
Rules & Requirements
Requisites
- English 100 is prerequisite to English 190.
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Textbooks & Materials
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