Course details

Name: ENGL - 237

Title: BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

Section: 41

Semester: Summer - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
This introductory survey course reads literature by Black women from early slave narratives to the present. The works are analyzed from sociohistorical and cultural perspectives, and significant attention is given to the unique strategies and structures distinguishing an African American female aesthetic and critical tradition. Authors to be studied may include Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Lorraine Hansberry, Audrey Lorde, Phillis Wheatley, and Alice Walker, among others. Meets World Cultures Requirement.

Schedule:

Graduation requirements:

  • Any Literature (1e)
  • Genre Study (Fiction)
  • Other American (TE 1d)
  • Ethnic Studies (3b)
  • Women and Gender Studies (3c)
  • World Cultures (TE 7a)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No