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Harlem Renaissance

Course #: AFRSTY 352L, Class #: 9902, Section #: 01

Description

This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and "imagined" communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses.

Prerequisites

ENGL 102 and ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or 235 or AFRSTY 100

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