African Women's Literature

ENGL

366

African Women's Literature

This course focuses on the contemporary literature of African women, examining their works themes and styles. Through the study of this literature and related scholarship, students are also introduced to important debates that affect or define African women's writings, including the politics of the literary canon and language, pre- and post-colonial discourses and African feminism or a newly-envisioned womanhood, as well as the urgent issues of ageism, racism and sexism. Authors to be examined include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Janice Boddy/Aman, Fadumo Korn, Sindiwe Magona, Winnie Mandela, Flora Nwapa, among others.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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