LIT 367 - African American Women Writers

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Bentley University

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Toni Morrison has a compelling explanation for the rising popularity of black women's fiction: "white men, quite naturally, wrote about themselves and their world; white women tended to write about white men because they were so close to them as husbands, lovers and sons; and black men wrote about white men as the oppressor or the yardstick against which they measured themselves. Only black women writers were not interested in writing about white men and therefore they freed literature to take on other concerns." This course includes autobiographical and fictional works by such black women writers as Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor to illustrate the richness and diversity of the black woman writer's literary tradition, as well as the ways in which contemporary writing by African American women has revolutionized American literature.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bentley.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 523-2354

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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