Spring 2024 Africana Studies: English BC3196 section 001

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERA

Call Number 00033
Day & Time
Location
W 12:10pm-2:00pm
406 Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Monica L Miller
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

Home to Harlem focuses on the relationship between art, activism and social justice during the Harlem/ New Negro Renaissance. Exploring the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates that animated Harlem in 1920s to 1930s, the course discusses the politics of literary and theatrical production, while exploring the fashioning and performance of New Negro identity through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork.  Topics considered include: role of Africa/slavery/the south in New Negro expression, patronage, passing, primitivism/popular culture, black dialect as literary language, and the problematics of creating a “racial” art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin.   

Web Site Vergil
Department Africana Studies (AFSB)
Enrollment 11 students (15 max) as of 3:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Africana Studies: English
Number BC3196
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20241AFEN3196X001