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“African American Literature and the American West” Syllabus
The photo above is of the head of Canyon de Chelly by Timothy O’Sullivan. For my dissertation, I explored the connections between the ways that African American, Native American, and white women authors used Scottish Enlightenment rhetoric to argue for their positions within the body politic of the United States. One of the key aspects that arose from the dissertation was the ways that African American and … Read More “African American Literature and the American West” Syllabus
