“Don’t let them run over you”: African American Women’s Writing
Throughout their presence in the U.S.A., African American female writers have created an important, though not always acknowledged, niche for themselves within U.S. American literatures. By reading poetry, slave narratives, novels, essays, speeches and theatre, this course will explore how ethnicity, gender, class, and socio-economical context are fundamental to the shaping of the writing of black women in U.S. American society. In order to do so, we will engage with the background of each writer as well as a brief overview of African American writers in general to better understand the historical, social, and political forces that have shaped their writing.
Texts Required:
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates and Nellie Y. McKay. 2nd ed. with CDs. New York: Norton, 2004.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother
Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Morrison, Toni. Beloved
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum |
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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British and American Studies / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaAngHM3 | 4 | ||||
Gender Studies / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2013) | Hauptmodul 1; Hauptmodul 1.2 | 3 | (bei Einzelleistung 3 LP zusätzlich) | |||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaIAS4; MaIAS6 | |||||
Literaturwissenschaft / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaLitAm2 | |||||
Literaturwissenschaft / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2009) | MaLit8 |