Women and Literature: Meditations on History--Black Women Writing & Slavery
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MWF 2-3
This seminar will examine works of fiction, autobiography, poetry,
criticism and theory by black women writers that focus on slavery. In
addition to creative texts, we will also familiarize ourselves with
the oral narratives of slaves, the legal cases and subsequent
newspaper articles concerning slave women upon which some authors draw
for their fiction. Writers include Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper, Octavia Butler, Sherley Anne Williams, Dolores
Kendricks, Marilyn Waniek, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Angela
Davis, Julie Dash, Mae Henderson and Bell Hooks. Students will keep a
reading journal, write three short papers and complete a final
project.
updated 2006-11-06
