Black Women Writers

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Black women writers have always been creating content that illuminates life. They have been innovators, freedom fighters, visionaries, theorists, critics, survivors, and teachers. Black women reflect on their experiences through their writing, resist oppression, form community, and often envision political and social possibilities.This course engages with Black women writers' various texts, such as slave narratives, autobiography, essays, fiction, poetry, drama, music, and film from the eighteenth century to the present. (Students will receive credit for BLS 3835 orENG 3835. These courses may substitute for each other in the F-replacement policy).