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4.00 Credits
Known alternately as "the New York Renaissance" or "The New Negro Movement," the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's decade produced an unprecedented outpouring of artistic works -in the literary, visual, and musical arts. From lectures, close textual analysis of assigned readings, student-centered discussions and oral reports, the class will become familiar with major themes and key writings of Harlem Renaissance authors. Attention will be paid to the struggles of the "New Negro Woman" in her attempt to find a voice during the period. Offered annually. Prerequisite: EMS.
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This course examines literature emanating from Americans of Asian descent and explores the rich diversity of Asian American literature in the context of disparate religious, cultural and national background factors. Essays poetry , novels, and dramas from the late 19th to the modern period are studied. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS.
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This course examines novels, stories, letters, journals, poems, essays, and autobiographies by such women as Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Forten, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gloria Anzaldu, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Each student will select the work of one writer for a research paper. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
African-American Women introduces students to the themes of social justice that are specific to this literary tradition. course alternates between reading primary texts and providing the needed historical backdrop. Of the many Special attention will be paid to the artistic and social/political obstacles women waged to find their own voices during the Harlem Renaissance and to the creation of the "New Negro Woman". Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS
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This course explores lesbian and gay writers' use of varying literary practices and genres - such as comedy of manners, crosswriting, biomythography, historical fiction, the novel, and poetry - to express characteristic themes: the closet and it's codes, coming out, "camp" shame/pride, reclaiming the past, gender identity, bisexuality, transgenderism, and AIDS. Writers include Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Leslie Feinberg, Allen Barnett, Isabel Miller, Walt Whitman, Essex Hemphill, and Pat Parker. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Class represents a largely unacknowledged "culture coexisting and interacting with others such as ethnic cultures, women's experience, and lesbian/gay culture. This course looks at fiction, poetry and drama about class and class conflict, primarily by writers from working class backgrounds. Examining class and class consciousness, and the interaction of class and race in the U.S., we will explore how literature has been a medium for members of oppressed groups to voice their experiences, world views, and demands, and also for members of more privileged groups to respond to social change. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
This course will give an in-depth look at a particular period or genre of African American literature. Topics are offered on a rotating basis. They may include African American Literature 1860-1920; African American Women Writers since the Harlem Renaissance; the "Social Realist" School (for example, Wright, Petry, Killens, Himes); the Black Arts Movement; and others. Offered every two years. Prerequisite: EMS.
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Extraordinary Bodies: Disability Studies in Lit. This course will examine how the depiction of bodily difference in literature leads to crucial questions about normative experience, language, and identy. The course will study the representation of extraordinary bodies in several literary genres - autobiography, poetry, fiction, and drama. While some attention will be given to constructions of disability throughout literary history, the particular focus will be on more recent texts written by writers with disabilities who take up the project of identifying themselves outside of "ablist" terms. (Offered periodically) Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
The exploration of the socio-cultural forces shaping the African-American novel from its earliest antecedents through Wright and Baldwin to its contemporary efflorescence in the works of Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson. Some cross-cul- tural comparison with African and Caribbean Novelists will be made. Titles may vary from semester to semester. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Beginning with the work of Phylis Wheatley in the 18th Century, this course explores the dominant motifs in African-American Poetry, with special focus on the work of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks. The second half of the course is devoted to a survey of African-American drama during the Harlem Renaissance, and culminates in an in-depth analysis of the work of Amri Baraka, Charles Fuller and August Wilson. Offered periodically.
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