ENGL 4507

Black Women Writers: Books to Screen

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

An exploration of writing by representative black women writers. We will examine specific texts as well as necessary critical and theoretical ideas which have been generated through, or with which this literature is in conversation. Students will develop critical thinking and other analytical skills as they engage the meanings of the politics of black women's lives in cross-cultural contexts. We will therefore consistently broaden the definition of black women's writing so that the trans-national contexts of this writing become visible. Among other ideas, the course will explore the social construction of black womanhood; social and literary hierarchies which locate black women and their writing in specific ways; aspects of black women's creativity. Moving beyond the questions of the representation of black women by others, our focus will be on the way that black women represent themselves.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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