ENGL 1220 B (CRN: 95864)

English: Harlem Renaissance (B)

3 credit hours

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About ENGL 1220 B

Representative topic: African-American Women Writers in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Cross-listed with: CRES 1825.

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Open to Degree and PACE students Crosslisted with CRES 1825 B Total combined enrollment = 40

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ENGL 1220B: Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance Movement is undoubtedly the first most prominent and influential Black cultural movement of the modern era. Rising amidst the racial, and social tensions that plagued the United States at the end of the first World War (1919), a group of old and young African American writers turned Harlem into what one of the group’s mentors, James Weldon Johnson, called “the Negro capital of the world”. This course will explore the dominant themes and poetic forms that these writers articulated in their works as they affirmed the humanity of the Black people and the validity of their popular culture in the American society of their time. The course will also examine the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on other Black cultural movements (like the Negritude Movement) that emerged in Paris in the 1930s. Authors include Claude Mckay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Bennett, Helene Johnson, Arna Bontemps, Nella Larsen, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, Léon Damas, and David Diop.

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My teaching style favors a combination of discussion, Socratic-style debate, and very careful analysis of assigned texts (which means that you must ALWAYS have the required reading material with you in class). I ask that you come to class with your mouth, ears, heart, and mind open; that you listen to and respect each other; and that you challenge yourself, your classmates, and me to do our very best.

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