FYSP 176 - Black Women’s Narratives on Page, Stage, and Screen
FCARHUCDWINT4 credits This course is an exploration of the storytelling styles of African American women authors in fiction, playwrighting/work for stage, and films. There will be a focus on comparing the various genres, especially in works that have appeared in more than one form, like Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which will be explored as a play; an unproduced screenplay by Hansberry; and three different film treatments. Other authors include novelists Toni Morrison, Teri McMillan, and Zora Neale Hurston; playwrights Ntozake Shange and Dominique Morriseau and others; filmmaker Julie Dash.
