Guest lecture: Cristina Di Maio, PhD “Ain’t I a woman?”: Looking at Black Women’s (Self-)Representation Through the Intersectional Framework Please read the following materials:

Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Assignmment: Choose an example of relationality in the text (the construction of social or sentimental ties and relations), and after quoting a relevant passage, discuss it in your paper. Response paper is due October 27th.

From The Age of Phillis (Honore Fanonne Jeffers):

Writing and teaching about slavery: https://naacpculpeper.org/resources/writing-about-slavery-this-might-help/ This is an interesting and very recent event that has to do with some of the authors and scholars we are reading: https://simoneleighvenice2022.org/loophole-of-retreat/ Article on Harriet Jacobs: Hannah Manshel, “‘Never Allowed for Property’: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law” in American Literature, 94, 2, June 2022: […]

Date                               Texts /topics                                                            6 October   TH. Introduction Documentary The Pieces I Am   7 October   FRI Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foudation”Hortense Spillers: “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”   13 October   TH Phillis Wheatley, PoemsH.F. Jeffers, The Age of Phillis Slave Trade, The Black Atlantic Europeans settlers […]