African-American Women - AAALB032A

• Title: African-American Women
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2017
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Jennifer Harding, Ph.D.

Annotation

This course will consider the development of literature by African-American Women's from the colonial era to the
present. Readings will include novels, stories, poems, a play, and essays, and texts will be studied in cultural,
historical, and theoretical contexts. African American women have not always had fortuitous conditions to create
literature; nonetheless they have produced enduring and provocative classics, exploring wide-ranging themes like
endurance, celebration, family separations and reunions, traumas, and empowerment. Authors studied in the
course will include Philis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade
Bambara, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler. ​

List of major texts:
-- Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects (1773)
-- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
-- Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
-- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
-- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
-- Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
-- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
-- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (27.01.2017)