8:00A-9:15A TR (30) 3 cr
TOPIC: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING=20

The primary work of this class will be the reading of literature
written by African-Americans in the years since the Harlem
Renaissance.  We will focus our attention on the ways in which
writers such as Hurston, Baldwin, Himes and Morrison have
imagined the worlds African-Americans inhabit and the ways in
which race, gender, and class inflect character and narrative.=20
In our thinking and discussion during the semester particular
care will be taken to examine the link between the political and
social realities that form the substance of these novels and the
ways in which that substance is imagined as story.  In other
words we will try to develop a reading of the connection between
the literary imagination and politics within the tradition of
African-American writing.