African Diaspora Women Writers

ENGL

351

African Diaspora Women Writers

African Diaspora Women Writers focuses on women’s writing throughout the global community of the African diaspora. One of the primary questions the course poses is: can we define a tradition or traditions within African diaspora women’s writing, in light of the cultural, national, and linguistic diversity of black women? We will focus on how the recurring motifs, themes, and styles shape the writing of the women of the African diaspora, and we will consider how gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, and social class differences inflect the production of African diaspora women’s writing. Finally, this course will consider the varieties of African diaspora women’s feminism as a critical approach to combat systemic and institutionalized political inequities.

All Terms

Undergraduate

Yes

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