ENGL 8200 is also offered in Spring 2025
ENGL 8200 is also offered in Spring 2022
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
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
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