English 345RG - Race/Ethnicity Mod. Amer. Lit

This course explores the range and variety of American literary expression from the 1920s through the early 1940s. Topics include the role of regionalism; the emergence of a "modernist" aesthetic; ethnicity and modernism; debates within African American literary culture. Authors include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Henry Roth, and Pietro Di Donato.

This course is open to Juniors and Seniors.; Prereq: 8 credits from English beyond the 100 level.