5510 Black Women Writers (3)
This course explores the writings of African American Women Writers. The
course examines how these writers have interacted with and often revised
stereotypical representations of African American womanhood typically found
within canonical and African American male literatures. The course will
examine literature (which might include fiction, poetry, autobiography, and
drama) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the majority of the works
will be by modern and contemporary authors such as Nella Larsen, Zora Neale
Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. By placing the works in this sort
of cultural and historical context, it will be possible to examine the unique
tradition of African American women's writings as well as individual texts.