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ENGL 5355: Black Women Writer’s

Literary Representations of the Black Female Body

Spring 2012

Dr. Lauren Camille Mason

Language, Literature, and Philosophy Department

Black Women Writer’s is a course offered at Armstrong Atlantic State University that examines written and visual representations of the black female body.  It covers a broad range of texts and films that address sexuality, rape,  abuse, motherhood, identity, self-image, and other issues that surround the black woman’s body.