Essay Write a short essay of at least three paragraphs for o…
Essay Write a short essay of at least three paragraphs for one of the following prompts below in the space provided below. Throughout the semester, we engaged the questions, What does “contemporary” mean? and What does “the now” encompass?, pondered the ways we might classify contemporary literature, and considered the ways different mediums work to present African American writers to future generations. In your essay, engage the course inquiry and discuss what three writers we’ve studied in this course invite us to consider about how we classify contemporary literature. How do these respective writers reflect contemporary society and/or help us understand where we are today? In your essay, explore the role three literary works we’ve studied play in bringing about positive social change. Justify your choices by paraphrasing examples to support your point. How would you like to see creative or literary works (that you identified) composed, mobilized, or taught in the future to achieve greater equality in our communities? Since there is no established canon for contemporary African American literature, if you were asked to make a list, which assigned writers/works from this Contemporary African American Writers course would you select? Create a list of at least five literary works we’ve studied this semester. In your essay, introduce the title and author of each literary work along with a short justification for each selection, pondering larger themes the texts you selected underscore/evoke. Select Literary Texts from this list to compose your essay. EH 442 (5042) Literary Texts Studied Fall 2025 Semester Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey The Piano Lesson by August Wilson An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Kindred graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffey (Adapter) Octavia Butler (Author) Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Citizen by Claudine Rankine “Brownies” by ZZ Packer from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara from Gorilla, My Love Selected Poetry by Nikki Giovanni “For Saundra” “Beautiful Black Men” “Nikki-Rosa” “All I Gotta Do” “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” “Revolutionary Music” Selected Works by James Baldwin I Am Not Your Negro documentary “A Talk to Teachers” “A Letter to My Nephew”
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I’m going there to meet my mother She said she’d meet me when I come I’m only going over Jordan I’m only going over home – Traditional– How are the aforementioned song lyrics, found in one of the epigraphs of Native Guard, an elegy to Natasha Trethewey’s mother?
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