ASRC 6507 - Black Women Writers: Books to Screen

(crosslisted)
(also ENGL 6507, FGSS 6507)

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ASRC 4507/ENGL 4507/FGSS 4507.

C. Boyce Davies.

This course reads and discusses representative literature from 20th century continental African writers with particular attention to the ways that writers examine the nature of the post-colonial state. We will pay attention in this class to the rise of contemporary African women writers but will set them against the context of the development of modern African literatures. 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 and creative skills as they engage the meanings writing, audience, and language in African contexts. We will also view and discuss some film which brings another point of analysis to these issues.