Black Women Writers

This course examines the literature of Black American women from 1746 through the Black Arts Movement of 1955-1970, and how these writings address some of the central issues that have faced Western society. Some of the treated writers include: Phyllis Wheatly, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet E. Wilson, Linda Brent Jacobs, Ida B. Wells, Nella Larson, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Petry, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, Paule Marshall, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Jayne Cortez, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelou.

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