AML 3311 Fall 2024 - 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 unquestioningly 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 romances of Zora Neale Hurston; and challenge the rigidity of the color line with Nella Larsen.