ENGL 5620 - Studies in Contemporary African-American Literature and Culture.

3 hours

Focuses on the development of African American literature and cultural production during the 20th and 21st centuries, across literary and cultural movements such as realism, regionalism, the Harlem/New Negro movement, Black Power/Arts Movement, postmodernism, and the Dark Room Collective. Covers such major artists as W.E.B. DuBois, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Dunham, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Yusef Komunyakaa, Spike Lee, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Additional topics of study may include Black Atlantic studies, African American feminism, black intellectual practice, sociological and political theory, and photography.

Prerequisite(s): None.

May be repeated for credit as topics vary.