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Sign of the Times
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910210
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It had to happen: "White Male Writers," offered this semester by Georgetown University's English Department. Yes, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne and their ilk now have their own literary minority group.
As the catalogue puts it: "When courses are termed Women Writers, Black Wo- men Writers, or Native American Writers, to name a few, implicit in their titling is a distinction from a group of writers that have traditionally dominated the American literary canon. It will be the aim of this course to examine white male American writers of the nineteenth and ...
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