Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The Harlem Renaisssance: Then and Now
Term
2025C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC7705401
Course number integer
7705
Meeting times
M 12:00 PM-2:59 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Zita C Nunes
Description
In 1925, Alain Locke published The New Negro: an Interpretation, an anthology of literary and artistic works by leading figures associated with a movement in Black culture that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance. This year’s 100-year anniversary of the event has prompted new scholarship and numerous commemorations. This seminar will focus on the Harlem Renaissance and its resonances across time and space by engaging material from the end of the US Reconstruction (1880s) to the present to explore what, when, where, whose, and why the Harlem Renaissance. The syllabus will include poetry, essays, long and short fiction and criticism. Students will work with archival materials, newspapers and periodicals, as well as film, music,artwork, and photography in exhibition catalogues and local collections. Required coursework will include the presentation of a chapter from a scholarly monograph or article associated with the theme of the course for discussion and a seminar paper, along with weekly assignments. For more information, please visit: https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/graduate.
Course number only
7705
Cross listings
COML7705401, ENGL7705401, FIGS7705401
Use local description
No