ENGL3592W
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ENGL 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States (3 Cr.) Race, Power, and Justice US, Literature, Writing Intensive
English Language & Literature (10961)
TCLA - College of Liberal Arts
Course description
From Harriet Jacobs’s depictions of her life in bondage in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to Audre Lorde’s moving essays on feminism and social (in)justice to Beyonce’s visual album Lemonade, black women’s writing has much to tell us about the meaning of survival and the myriad ways that race, class, gender, and other modalities of difference intersect in the national imaginary. In this course, we will use black women’s various forms of writing about themselves—from memoirs, autobiographies, and essays to blogs, song lyrics, and documentary films—as the source material for contemplating the sociocultural conditions of black female life in the past and present.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
A-F - A-F Grade Basis
Lecture
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
01616
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Literature, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
Yes
Typically offered term(s)
Every Spring