- Module description African American Literature 1900-1960
(EAS3121) This module examines the efflorescence of African
American and Afro Caribbean cultural productivity in the first
half of this century in the USA. You will explore the phenomenon
of the Harlem Renaissance, the debates around the representation
of African Americans which occurred in the 1920s, the relation
of black modernism to Anglo-American modernism, the importance
of black music to the era, postwar developments in narrative and
theatre, and the relationship between racial and national
identity. On completion of the module, you will have developed
an appreciation of specific African American and Afro-Caribbean
authors and texts as well as an understanding of the cultural
politics of black literature in the United States between 1900
and 1960.