ENGL 361: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Rev. C1) Report a Broken Link
Unit 1
| Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance |
| Harlem Renaissance: |
| A Culture of Change: The Jazz Age |
| Segregation: |
| Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land |
| Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia |
| Roaring Twenties: |
| To Live In The 1920's |
| Fashions Of The 1920's |
| Fashion |
| Beautiful Flappers - 1920's Color Fashion Film |
| Flappers 1920 Documentary |
| Prohibition |
| The History of Prohibition in the United States |
| Prohibition and Crime |
| Speakeasies |
| Speakeasies of the Prohibition Era |
| Flappers |
| Flappers in the Roaring Twenties |
| 46d. Flappers |
| Flappers - The Roaring Twenties |
| The Fabulous Flappers |
| Famous Flappers (1/3) |
| History: Flappers |
| Josephine Baker |
| Josephine Baker - 2 - (1927) |
| Josephine Baker |
| Josephine Baker's Banana Dance |
| Jazz/Blues |
| America's Music History: The Jazz Age |
| All About Jazz: A Brief History of the Blues |
| New Woman |
| African American New Woman |
| New Negro NAACP |
| The New Negro Movement |
Unit 2
| Poetry |
| McKay, Claude: Biography |
| Hughes, Langston: Biography |
| Cullen, Countee: Biography |
| Bennett, Gwendolyn: Biography |
| Fauset, Jessie Redmon: Biography |
| Johnson, James Weldon: Biography |
| Red Summer 1919 |
Unit 3
| Short Stories |
| Section 1: Reading Assignment |
| McKeever, Benjamin F. “Cane as Blues.” Negro American Literature Forum (4:2), 1970 July, 61–63. |
| Cancel, Rafael A. “Male and Female Interrelationship in Toomer's Cane.” Negro American Literature Forum, (5:1), 1971 Spring, 25–31. |
| Section 2: Reading Assignment |
| Walker, Daniel F. “Exploding the Canon: A Re-examination of Wallace Thurman’s Assault on the Harlem Renaissance.” Western Journal of Black Studies; Fall 1998; 22, 3; pg. 153. |
| Thurman, Wallace: Biography |
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| Section III: Reading Assignment |
| Fauset, Jessie Redmon: Biography |
| Johnson, Abby Arthur. “Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance.” Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture (Atlanta, GA), (39:2), 1978, 143–53. |
Unit 4
| Edward Christopher Williams: When Washington Was in Vogue |
Unit 5
| Nella Larsen: Quicksand |
| Bonner, Marita O. “On Being Young—A Woman—and Colored.” Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Rutgers University Press, 2001. |
Unit 6
Unit 7
| Zora Neale Hurston. Jonah’s Gourd Vine |
| Hurston, Zora Neale: Biography |
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Kanthak, John F. “Legacy of Dysfunction: Family Systems in Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine.” Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 28 No. 2, Winter 2005, pp 113–129.
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Unit 8
| James Weldon Johnson. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man |
| Johnson, James Weldon: Biography |