750 words essay

• Reading:
• - Gilyard, Keith and Anissa Wardi. African American Literature.
  • - Chapter 3 Introduction, “The South as Literary Landscape”
  • - Douglass, Frederick. Chapter V in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • - Walker, Margaret. “Southern Song”
  • - Hurston, Zora Neale. Excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God

Discuss in an essay of 750 – 800 words how African American writers portray the American South in their works. Using the assigned readings from last week (Douglass’s Chapter V in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Margaret Walker’s “Southern Song,” and the selection from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God), discuss what the Southern landscape, be it real or fictionalized, means to African Americans.

Please follow these guidelines as you craft your response:

Write a clear thesis statement in your introductory paragraph.

Use 3 – 4 specific quotations from the required texts to support your thesis. Use MLA formatting to cite in text.

- No outside sources are to be used.

- Create a unique title for your essay.

- write a clear thesis statement in response to the prompt

- use supporting material from required readings to strengthen your perspective.