LITR233

(Formerly LITR 280) The birth of the modern African American literary consciousness movement was forged by writers in the early 20th century. Centered in New York and Harlem of the 1920s, a group of talented writers and activists initiated a movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. The course will explore the works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher, Wallace Thurman, George Schyler, Countee Cullen, Dorothy West, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, and many others whose themes and ideologies have influenced contemporary American writing.