AFRS 228 - African American Literature

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as ENGL 228) Topic for 2015/16a: ‘Vicious Modernism’ and Beyond. In the famous phrase of Amiri Baraka, “Harlem is vicious/ Modernism.” Beginning with the modernist innovations of African American writers after the Harlem Renaissance, this course ranges from the social protest fiction of the 1940s through the Black Arts Movement to the postmodernist experiments of contemporary African American writers. Mr. Simpson.