AML 3311 Fall 2023 Gaines

This course considers the Major American authors shaping and reshaping American literature from 1919-1940, the years also known as the “Harlem Renaissance.” As a prolific literary, arts, and cultural movement, the Harlem Renaissance birthed many of the authors we now consider canonical (fraught as that term is.) For example, we will debate the place and value of Black art with the works of W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes; engage in the lyrical and ethnographic romance of Zora Neale Hurston’s novels; challenge the rigidity of the color line with Nella Larsen; and understand citizenship and modernity with Alain Locke.