Analysis of Langston Hughes

Each of you will need to choose a full-length text (a novel, a play, a collection of short stories, poems, or
essays) by an author connected to the Harlem Renaissance to read and use in this project. You may also use
any of the readings we have done as a class.
You may choose to do a traditional academic essay, but you can also choose another genre. For instance, you
could choose to prepare a video essay that would introduce the author or text a 21st-century audience. Or you
could write a profile of the author and the text designed for a magazine like the Atlantic or the New Yorker that
makes some point about the period (and perhaps it’s contemporary connections) or the author or American
literature. This does need to be a non-fiction text.
You will also need to have a clearly defined audience. This could be the class, the audience of a particular
journal or magazine, a particular academic audience, a particular non-academic audience (for instance, an
audience of people interested in modernist literature who are not scholars or students).
The Final Project requirements:
A basis in at least one full-length text by a Harlem Renaissance writer (1914-1940) that we have not read as a
class. While you do need to let me know what text you are using, you may use any
A clear and specific audience (this will not be named in the project but in the proposal)
A clear genre
The equivalent of 8-10 pages of text (depending on genre, you might also include visuals)
A basis in research
please be sure to note my audience of choice: paper to be read by students now in the year 2020 explaining
how Langston Hughes work is just as important now as it was during the Harlem Renaissance.