20th Century African American Women Writers: Stephanie Wells

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This course will examine a (sadly small) sampling of groundbreaking poems, essays, short stories, and novels written by African-American women in the twentieth century, with a focus on a handful of thematic and often intersectional threads that run through many of these texts, including racial identity, sexual identity, patriarchal culture, and cultural constructions of the American Black woman. Writers may include Hurston, Larsen, Brooks, Clifton, Walker, Marshall, Morrison, Lorde, Dove, Smith, Gay, Bambara, Rankine, and/or Ward.

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