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ENGL.4010: Selected Authors: The Harlem Renaissance


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Zora Neale Hurston  Library of Congress                 PD

 


Week 7:

Poetry: Claude McKay and Anita Scott Coleman: 

Read 

  • In Double-Take, all of the poems by Claude McKay, including “To the White Fiends.” [Online Handout/Link].

  • All of the poems by Anita Scott Coleman
  • Anita Scott Coleman’s short stories “Phoebe and Peter Go up North”
  • “Phoebe Goes to a Lecture” [Online Handouts/Links]  

Week 8:

Intra-racial and Inter-racial Issues: Zora Neale Hurston and Wallace Thurman:

Read

  • In Double-Take, "Color Struck" Zora Neale Hurston
  • "Lennox Avenue" [Online Handout/Link].  
  • Wallace Thurman’s "The Blacker the Berry," pp. 1-50.