ENGL 280

Spring 2017 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Mar 13-May 3

Women Writers

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Credit: 3 hours.

Study of British and American women authors.

Same as GWS 280. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 280 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32103	Lecture-Discussion	SS	5:00PM -7:50PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Somerville, S	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/13/17-05/03/17 Section Title: Black Women Writers Section Info: Topic Section SS: Black Women Writers Audre Lorde wrote that “poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought,” emphasizing that literature does not simply reflect the world around us, but actively produces new ideas and possibilities. This course will consider a wide range of writing—including poetry, fiction, autobiography, comics, and essays—by selected black women writers from the nineteenth century through the present. Our discussions will explore their literary strategies and political visions, along with the aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts of their work. Authors may include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, June Jordan, Jackie Kay, Nella Larsen, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Janet Mock, Toni Morrison, Jackie Ormes, Claudia Rankine, Maria Stewart, and Alice Walker.