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May 02, 2024
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AREL 822 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance3 credits
The extraordinary achievements of African American political activists, intellectuals, dancers, painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, and writers between 1917 and 1935 mark the movement we now call the Harlem Renaissance. While Fats Waller’s song “This Joint Is Jumpin’” (1929) describes the good-time feeling much of the movement engendered, the Harlem Renaissance was in fact a multifaceted effort to improve race relations. Its intent was to gain access for African Americans’ fuller participation in American life. In this course we will discuss literary texts that articulate the broad preoccupations of the period. And most importantly, we will focus on the special qualities that have earned these texts a permanent place in our national literature.
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