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2012-2013 University Catalog

ENGH 350 - African American Literature Through 1946

Credits: 3 (NR)
Focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography, explores evolution of African American literature and aesthetics and major social, cultural, and historical movements such as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and emergence of black naturalism, realism, and modernism in the 1930s-40s. Major authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Margaret Walker, Chester Himes, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry.

Equivalent to ENGL 371 (2010-2011 Catalog)

Prerequisite(s): 3 credits of 100-level English and 3 credits of general education literature.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0