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George Mason University
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2016-2017 University Catalog 
  
2016-2017 University Catalog

ENGH 350 - African American Literature Through 1946

Credits: 3
Not Repeatable for Credit
Offered by English  
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.

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: LEC
Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0