AS 060.392 - Crossing the Literary Color Line

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Johns Hopkins University

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Description:

Turning to the early to mid-twentieth century, this course will turn to novelists who defied literary and social expectation and wrote novels with protagonists and secondary characters whose racial identity differed from the authors’. We will focus our attention on white writers who took up the subject of black life and African American writers who wrote white-life novels. Some of the questions we will consider include those around authenticity, political motivation, cross class/racial alliances, minstrelsy, psychoanalysis, and citizenship. Not only will we become more familiar with the mid-twentieth century literary terrain and how writers creatively grappled with volatile and sometimes taboo political matter, we will question and engage how America’s racial landscape always impacted the literary process.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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