ENGL 401 - African American Women Novelists

Institution:

University of San Francisco

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Description:

This course explores the way in which African American women novelists have captured center stage of the American literary scene. Such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, and Xam Cartier have given new life to the novel form by extending the limits of the English language, enriching it with black folk idioms, black myths, black history, and the rhythms of black music. With Zora Neale Hurston as their formother, they have shown, directly or indirectly, through their varied depictions of the inextricable relationship beween the black woman and her community that the black community's survival and growth rest largely on its acceptance, understanding, and appreciation of black female self-definition and empowerment.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.usfca.edu/

Phone Number:

(415) 422-5555

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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