Africana Studies 366 - SEM: CONTEMP TOPICS AFR-AM ST

Topics course. This seminar studies closely a dozen or so classic texts by black women. The intent here is to look at each text in its specific historical context, in its entirety and in regard to its genre, and in relation to various trajectories of black history and intellectual formation. Though this course necessarily revisits some works that a student might have encountered previously, our study is different from that of a survey courses. Focused primarily on the last hundred years, authors might include Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, ntozake shange, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Ann duCille, Jamaica Kincaid, Patricia Williams, Toni Cade Bambara.

Topic: Classic Black Women's Texts (Capstone Course). Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores