GWS 280

Spring 2017

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Women Writers
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 280. See ENGL 280.

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49540
Lecture-Discussion
S
2:00PM -3:15PM
TR
English Building
Somerville, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/17/17-05/03/17
Section Title:
Black Women Writers
Section Info:
Topic Section S: 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.
32106
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.
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