NEUER RAUM U14 in C5.3!!!
There are probably four great twentieth century Black American novelists: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Ernest J. Gaines. This course will examine novels by two of those four writers.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) published but one novel, Invisible Man, in 1952. It is often claimed to be the most important American novel of the second half of the 20th century.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote four novels, three of them beautiful, powerful books. The first was Go Tell it on the Mountain, published in 1953.
We will use the Penguin Modern Classics editions of both novels.
Requirements for the course are close and careful reading of these two novels, weekly in-class "scribbles," and a term paper. |
