A deviation from the previous genres that African American literature held are explored through Octavia
Butler’s Science Fiction collection Bloodchild, Ntozake Shange’s expressive poetry For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, and Hortense J. Spiller’s The Crisis of the Negro
Intellectual: A Post Date. The three writers express the historical themes associated with race, gender,
sexuality, freedom and intellectual discourse but do so through differing mediums.
Instructions: Pick one of the three texts and write a three paragraph post which should include a
summation, indepth analysis of the text, and your opinion of why the writer chose to express themselves in
that particular way in regards to the themes
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