DQ 1 - Alice Moore Dunbar Moore was married to Paul Laurence Dunbar, but their poetry differed. Moore was interested in political issues, but she was also interested in issues concerning gender. Choose one of her writings, and focus on issues pertaining to women. Take a stance, provide textual evidence and analysis to support your stance about her literature.
DQ 2 - Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask", is one of the most anthologized poems in American literature. Take a stance on the poem. Provide textual evidence and analysis to support your stance.
DQ 3 - At the center of "Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves," Braithwaite makes an assertion that resonates with virtually every antebellum slave narrative and many after Emancipation: "I, who never had a name." Review the conventions of the slave narrative by examining at least one such text included in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature and explore ways that this poem, which cites no other reference to bondage, can be read as representative of the slave narrative tradition.
DQ 4 - Discuss the theme of sexual and economic exploitation of women in "The Scarlet Woman."