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Course Discription |
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In this course, students read and analyze texts by major American and African-American writers in socio-political and historical contexts. This course covers some of the major developments in American literature between and after World Wars I and II, examining forms of experimentation and representation in some canonical texts as well as the relationship between American and African-American forms of modernism. Therefore, the course surveys representative writings by modernist American and African-American writers and covers notions like the "roaring twenties," the "Jazz Age," the "New Negro," and the "Harlem Renaissance." Organized around several interrelated themes, the course will investigate questions of nativism and ethnic identity, language and modernism, literary subgenres, popular vs. high culture, aesthetic innovation, the modernist reimagining of regional roots, ... etc. Writers examined include, but are not limited to, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thurman, Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, among many others |