ENGL 386.008/.009 | American Women Writers of Color | Fall 2005
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---Paper #2 Due Date: December 9---
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Paper 1 Assignment:
Pick one theme from the list below, and in a paper of about 1,000 words, compare/contrast how that theme is treated through two different works, choosing two different genres (genres = poetry, essay, novel, short story). You must choose from the works we have read for class since the mid-term (anything after Faces in the Moon).
List of themes:
  • women of color appropriating masculine privilege or power
  • writing as survival for women of color
  • women of color and their awareness of history
  • women of color resisting or manipulating the dominant gaze (racist, patriarchal, classist, and/or sexist)
  • women of color identifying/bonding with other women rather than, or despite, identifying/bonding with men

  • Use pertinent critical vocabulary and terms from your class notes to help your discussion.

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