Short Stories in Black Literature
8-weeks | This course is completed
In this course, we will be discussing short stories by Black writers. The emphasis will be a discussion of cultural, feminist, psychological, and historical analysis of the stories. We will discuss "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabrielle Marquez, "Dead Man’s Path" by Chinua Achebe, "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Sonny’s Blues" by James Baldwin, "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, and "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison.
Jacqueline Goffe-McNish
Jacqueline Goffe-McNish, Ph.D., was a professor of English and Humanities at Dutchess Community College for thirty-two years. She has taught Composition, Introduction to Literature, African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, Technical Writing, and Bible as Literature since 1991 at DCC. She graduated from St. John Fisher University in Rochester and SUNY Brockport. Her master’s thesis was “The Teaching of African American Literature in High Schools”. She completed a Doctorate in Education at St. John Fisher University. She has written two textbooks: Composition in Fifteen Weeks, published by Kona Publishers and Analysis, Approaches, and Appeals in Introductory Literature, published by Kendall Hunt Publishers.