Islands, Archipelagoes and Black Women’s Literature

Catalog description

This course analyzes the intersections of gender, geography, race, and literature through a study of Black women’s writing that emanates from and explores islands and archipelagoes. The course foregrounds Black women’s archipelagic literature to, at once, contest assumptions that Black women’s literature and islands are “too insular” to speak to global questions and explore the ways in which Black women’s archipelagic literature reimagines the world all together. Course themes include, but are not limited to, colonialism, necolonialism, revolution, diaspora and sexuality. Satisfies Africana Studies major requirement for elective in “Cultural Production and Expression” and diversity requirement Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement in all three catagories. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.