Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance | Livestream Zoom + Recorded

Course Description:

From 1920-1940, African-American writers flourished. Their books challenged racial stereotypes and depicted the "true" lives of their people. Many of the settings highlighted Harlem as the newfound mecca of the Black experience thereby creating the Harlem Renaissance. But, Zora Neale Hurston's works were often set in the South, and Nella Larsen tackled issues such as racial "passing" and homosexuality. The pressure to uplift the race often conflicted with artistic desires to tell complex and nontraditional stories. We'll read Hurston's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," and Larsen's novellas, "Passing," and "Quicksand," to anchor our discussions of the multivalent Harlem Renaissance.