CFP: [African-American] CFP: Literary Horizons Journal
LITERARY HORIZONS JOURNAL
In Their Eyes were Watching God (1937), Zora Neal Hurston describes the
Black woman as the “mule of the world†because she is both a victim of
racism and of male domination. During the period in which Hurston writes,
do other writers, both male and female, support her perspective? What is
the place of the Black woman 50 years later? Given these questions, the
Literary Horizons Journal, a journal dedicated solely to publishing the
work of graduate students, is soliciting papers that explore the role of
the Black woman in American Literature. The topics may include but are
not limited to: