Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: The Roaring 20s in Harlem || Lifelong Learning Program

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  • Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: The Roaring 20s in Harlem

    Mary Katherine. Wainwright.

    2 classes: Tuesday 10 and Thursday 12.
    Class 1:00 – 3:00, social hour 3:00 – 4:00.

    425 pesos.


    The decade of the 1920’s is regarded as the decade of experimentation in American literature, art and culture, and nowhere was this experimentation as evident as in Harlem in New York City.  While many writers of the 20s became expats in Paris or created a bohemian culture in Greenwich Village, Harlem became the mecca of black art, literature, and music.  After a general introduction to the social forces at work that created the Great Migration to Harlem in 1917, the course will introduce some of the literary greats:  Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Angelina Grimke, and others.  Poetic and literary forms and themes will be emphasized.

    Mary Katherine Wainwright has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University. Her dissertation focused on the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. For thirty years she was Professor of Literature at the State College of Florida in Bradenton/Sarasota, and has taught at various other colleges and universities including The College of Staten Island, Eckerd College, and the University of South Florida. Her specialties include women in literature, women’s studies, African-American literature, and American literature and poetry.  She teaches courses in literature and poetry in San Miguel at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference and the Lifelong Learning Program.  She is the author of a collection of poetry:  A Taste of Salt:  Poems, 2018.

    Announcing the 2019-2020 Lifelong Learning Program Courses


    The Lifelong Learning Program at the Centro Cultural / Instituto Allende provides San Miguel de Allende residents and visitors with the opportunity of taking courses designed for self-enrichment, intellectual stimulation, and fun. Courses are designed for adult learners by skilled instructors. All program staff and instructors are volunteers in order to keep tuition as low as possible. All courses take place in the Lifelong Learning Program classroom on the upper level of the Instituto, Ancha de San Antonio 22.


    We offer approximately two dozen courses from October through March. There are two to seven two-hour classes per course. For schedules and fees, which include social hour snacks after each class, or lunch in one-day courses, please see course descriptions below. The program is an excellent way to meet interesting new people and to indulge your intellectual curiosity. Now you can finally take those intriguing courses you never had time to take in school, but with no homework, exams, or grades!


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