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Spring 2025  |  ENGL 8200 Section 001: Seminar in American Literature (64869)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Tue 11:15AM - 01:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 10 seats filled)
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Course Catalog Description:
American literary history. Sample topics: first American novels, film, contemporary short stories and poetry, American Renaissance, Cold War fiction, history of the book. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64869/1253

Spring 2022  |  ENGL 8200 Section 001: Seminar in American Literature -- Literature of the Great Migration (65797)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 212
Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
American literary history. Sample topics: first American novels, film, contemporary short stories and poetry, American Renaissance, Cold War fiction, history of the book. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
As perhaps the most significant development in U.S. race relations and culture during the twentieth century, the mass migration of African Americans from the rural south to urban, northern, and western environments, from approximately 1910-1970, fundamentally reshaped American cultural and social landscapes. In this course we'll examine African American literary works that seek to chart, among other issues: the impact of the Great Migration on black cultural practice, shifting class lines within the African American community in the weak of urbanization, the development of new African American political discourses emergent from industrial and urban locations, and the vexed question of the role of the south in defining black cultural identity. Students will be encouraged to link the literary and cultural study of the Great Migration to their own research in U.S. multiethnic studies. Authors studied in detail will include Isabel Wilkerson, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove, among others.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65797/1223

Spring 2020  |  ENGL 8200 Section 001: Seminar in American Literature -- North American Occupations (65026)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
American literary history. Sample topics: first American novels, film, contemporary short stories and poetry, American Renaissance, Cold War fiction, history of the book. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
This class takes a broad view of "Occupation" to include geographical/military/economic, labored/belabored, and affective occupations/preoccupations - both actual and spectral - that have shaped North American (particularly US) and global cultural imaginaries since the late 19th century. We will look at literature, film, theoretical work and visual art. Texts by José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Theodore Roosevelt, Zitkala-`a, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Graham Greene, Ho Chi Minh, W.E.B. Dubois, Richard Wright, Joy Kogawa, Alain Resnais, Haunani-kay Trask, Jessica Hagedorn, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, W.E.B. Dubois, Karl Marx, Sara Ahmed, David L. Eng, and others.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65026/1203

Fall 2017  |  ENGL 8200 Section 001: Seminar in American Literature -- African Americans in the Great Depression (34727)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 207A
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
American literary history. Sample topics: first American novels, film, contemporary short stories and poetry, American Renaissance, Cold War fiction, history of the book. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mills175+ENGL8200+Fall2017
Class Description:
This seminar will examine a range of African American political and cultural productions from the 1930s, with an eye toward 1) identifying the specific parameters and characteristics of the Depression era as a moment in African American cultural and political history; 2) tracing the ways Depression-era texts came to shape scholarly understandings of African American art, politics, and identity in general; and 3) using the context of the Depression to re-examine long-standing distinctions between and assumptions about various African American aesthetic and political projects. Texts studied will include Arna Bontemps' two historical novels about slave rebellions, which we'll read in part as precursors of the returns to slavery that have been thematically dominant in postmodern African American fiction; Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston's competing definitions of black folk identity and culture, and their dialogues with Communist and fascist discourses of the 1930s; Langston Hughes's oft-devalued pro-Communist protest poetry of the Depression decade; a range of theatrical adaptations, such as the Federal Theater Project's "voodoo" Macbeth and The Swing Mikado; and W.E.B. Du Bois's Marxist account of African American history in his landmark work of activist history, Black Reconstruction in America. Often lost between scholarly emphases on the 1920s Harlem Renaissance and the postwar ascendency and mainstream success of African American novelists, the Depression remains an uncertain period in African American literary, artistic, and political history. In this seminar, we'll try to better define that period and the continuing relevance black expression in the Depression holds for academic and sociopolitical projects today.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34727/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 February 2017

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