ENGL229

This is a course in English Renaissance (or early modern) and African-American literature. The dramatic plays and prose pieces produced during these disparate literary periods share many thematic-and some conventional-points of contact that are often overlooked and consequently not fully explored. Both English Renaissance and modern African-American authors addressed several critical issues such as miscegenation, power (political, parental, social), class, sexuality, lineage, death, identity, passing, homosexuality/homosociality, and race. These common preoccupations will enable our productive crossing of various boundaries in class, most notably, the historical boundary between the texts a. Authors will include W.E.B. Du Bois, Suzan-Lori Parks, William Shakespeare, Adrienne Kennedy, Christopher Marlowe, James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Harriet Jacobs.

GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GE - T2-HUM (Tier 2 Humanities)

2 courses from Tier One - Traditions/Cultures.