Read Frances Watkins Harper “The Slave Mother”(1854), “Bury Me in a Free Land” (1858); “Song for the People” (1895); “Aunt Chloe: Learning to Read”(1872), Eliza Harris (1857)
Critical Essay: (3 pages typed, double-spaced, size 12 font, and numbering each page)
Note: The following questions are guides to responding and writing the critical essay. They are for you to consider, so you may respond to one or two — or none at all. You may choose to approach writing about these poems or Harper’s intentions about them a different way. Critical Essay is not an opinion piece (no “I think”), so you may also use outside sources to support your argument, giving credit to those sources correctly (with a Works Cited page in MLA style)
What is counted as protest in terms of literature and art? How does African American Literature and Art disrupt? What are its aims and are they achieved? (Reprise)
What is the intertextual exchange of African American Literature and Art as protest between the 19th and 21st centuries?
How are these exchanges a call and response? What is the call and the response?
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