300-400 LEVEL COURSES 463-1 - Black Writing at The Turn of The 20th c #6920

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MWF 10:00 NURHUSSEIN OLD CATEGORY: D SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT In a 1931 essay titled "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem," Charles Chesnutt asserted that "Negro writers no longer have any difficulty in finding publishers. Their race is no longer a detriment but a good selling point." We will, in this course, consider to what extent we can agree with Chesnutt's assessment of the place of black writers in American print culture at the turn of the century compared to a generation later. In spite of, or perhaps in response to, the perceived "detriment" observed by Chesnutt, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a rich period for African-American literary production, as we will discover through our reading of Che snutt's Conjur e Tales, Pauline H opkins's Of O ne Blood, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's I ola Leroy, Booker T. Wa shington's Up fr om Slavery, W. E. B . Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, James Weld on Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex -Colored Man, and poems by Harper and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Because African-American newspapers and magazines-some with wide circulations-constituted a significant and developing sphere of publication, students will devote one research ess ay to examining The Colored Ame rican Magazine (founded in Boston, edited by Pauline Hopkins, and self-described as "the only first-class illustrated monthly published in America exclusively in the interests of the Colored Race"). In addition, one longer capstone essay will be due at the end

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