AFRICANA STUDIES 283c - d.Nineteenth-Century Women's Prose:The Black Diaspora

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Bowdoin College

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Fall 2006. DAN MOOS. Engages the writings of black women in the nineteenth century. Includes reading of poetry, novels, essays, activist literature, slave narratives, and autobiographies in order to understand the complicated position of nineteenth-century black women with reference to patriarchy, racism, slavery, abolitionism, education, the African Diaspora, and national affiliation. Special attention is paid to the scholarly tensions with the more celebrated tradition of nineteenth-century prose by African American men. Authors include Harriet Jacobs, Mary Ann Shadd, France E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Pauline Hopkins, Hannah Crafts, Mary Prince, and others. (Same as English 280 and Gender and Women's Studies 280.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar of 100-level course in English, Africana Studies or Gender and Women's Studies, or permission of instructor. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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