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3.00 Credits
A study of the historical, cultural, and political circumstances that led to the flowering of African-American literature in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore life writings and issues of self-representation in the African-American expressive cultural tradition from 1850 to 1905. This course is concerned with the concept of citizenship, its implied universalism, and the necessity of critiquing this universalism that maintains a unified notion of democracy.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in twentieth century southern fiction from 1900 - 1960, including Kate Chopin, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. We will examine both the recurring subjects of the Jim Crow era - "sin, sex, and segregation," in the old Southern phrase - and the stylistic innovations of the writers. We'll pay special attention to contemporary criticism that explores the period from historical, political, and cultural perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
This literature course explores the conflicted and contradictory ways in which racial and ethnic identities have been constructed and mediated in American culture.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of selected contemporary African-American poets.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an exploration and showcase of African American poetry and poetics, as seen through the poetry and essays of the post civil rights/ black arts movement generation of poets. Although this course will also examine the historical elements of the African-American voice, the main focus of our reading and discussions will concentrate on the different and various facets of present day African-American poetry. While some of the writers we encounter during the semester may be known to many: Elizabeth Alexander, Terrance Hayes, Harryette Mullen; many more will prove to be poets with only first or second books under their belts. Though their pages, we will attempt to trace the path their poetry leads; what is their sense of voice? What obligations (if any) do they feel with the writing that's come before them? What new territories do they claim? It is hoped that the student will come away with a deeper understanding of what elements and issues define the 21st African American poetic voice.
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3.00 Credits
In answering the question, "What was American modernism?" most literary critical perspectives might commonly be expected to focus on a modernity represented by the authors of the "lost generation" in the U.S., such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. While a conventional understanding of American modernism might serve to underscore the importance of the stylistic, cultural and artistic contributions of these and other canonical moderns, such a view might also give little consideration to the significance of those modern American voices not ordinarily heard in such a context. This course poses the question, "What was American modernism?" to answer it by exploring its roots in two less conspicuous early 20th-century American modernisms: the Chicago Renaissance of 1912-1925, and the Harlem Renaissance of 1920-1929. In "engendering renaissance," these two moments suggest a literary birth and rebirth of modern American identity that questions its seemingly stable boundaries and borders, reconfiguring the idea of "American" within and opening the door to the larger and more varied cultural fabric that is modern America(s). By locating the rise of American modernism in the relation between these two literary moments, this course will broaden our understanding of the idea of "American" at this time by considering how it is created within a frame determined by the interplay of race, gender, class and nation. In this way, it seeks to deepen our understanding of U.S. American culture and the idea of "American in the early 20th century, while suggesting new ways to engage the global social and cultural challenges facing the idea of "American" in the 21st. Course Requirements: two 5-7 page papers, group presentation, several short in-class writing assignments Course Texts: Required texts may include Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"; Jose MartÃ, "Our America"; Henry Blake Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers; Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark; Waldo Frank, Our America; Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America"; Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery; W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk; Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice From the South; Jean Toomer, Cane; Jessie Fauset, Plum Bun; Nella Larsen, Quicksand & Passing
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literary culture of Southern Africa in the last 25 years of the 20th century, specifically the ways in which individual writers confronted the apartheid regime and their responses to the new South Africa in the post-apartheid period.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the diversity of literatures from the African continent. Readings are in English and some are translated from French, Arabic, and African languages, including several recorded form the oral tradition. Literature from different parts of Africa are composed in a variety of forms like novels, dramas, epics, and poetry.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the literature of Anglophone Caribbean.
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