1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Humanities
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska - Second-cycle Erasmus programme
5. Electives - Female discourse in Afro-American literature

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Electives - Female discourse in Afro-American literature - course description

Aim of the course

Discussion of a female discourse in contemporary African-American literature.
 

Prerequisites

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None.

Scope

1. Critical race theory
2. Race and American literary canon
3. Feminism and the experience of black American women
4. Black American women’s literary theory
5. Black aesthetics
6. Literary portrayal of slavery
7. Literary images of black female experience
8. Intra-racial conflicts
9. Literary trope of a black veteran
10. Life-writing: autobiography, biography, memoir.

Teaching methods

Seminar lecture, text analysis, discussion.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Graded credit for a project on the legacy of a selected writer and for a term paper analyzing a selected work representing life writing.

Recommended reading

1.     Angelou, M. 1971. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bentham Books.

2.     Angelou, M. Selected Poems. – provided by the teacher

3.     Davis, A. Y. 1983. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Vintage. – provided by the teacher

4.     Hooks, B. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston, MA: South End Press. – provided by the teacher

5.     Marshall, P. 2010. Triangular Road: A Memoir. Basic Civitas Books, 2010. – provided by the teacher

6.     Morrison, T. 1997. Beloved. London: Vintage.

7.     Morrison, T. 2015. God Help the Child. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. – provided by the teacher

8.     Morrison, T. 2012. Home. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. . – provided by the teacher

9.     Mullen, H. Selected Poems. – provided by the teacher

10.  Naylor, G. 1992. Bailey’s Cafe. New York: Vintage. – provided by the teacher

11.  Walker, A. 1998. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. New York: Random House. – provided by the teacher

12.  Walker, A. 1988. The Color Purple. New York. HBJ.

Further reading

1.     Bell B. 2004. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press. – provided by the teacher

2.     Morrison, T. 2008. “The Site of Memory.” In What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction. Ed. Carolyn C. Denard, 65-82. Jackson: UP of Mississippi. – provided by the teacher

3.     Walker, A. 1983. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: A Womanist Prose by Alice Walker. SanDiego, New York, London: Harvest/HBJ. – provided by the teacher

Notes

None

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