AP/HUMA 3316 3.00

Black Women’s Writing: Diaspora and Gender in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States

This course introduces students to the body of literature being produced by black women writers in the Caribbean, Canada and the US after the 1970s. While black women engage the particular concerns of their individual societies, their work also speaks across a larger body of writing. The course examines the intersecting oppressions of racism, sexism and classism and the ways in which black women’s fictional writing (re)defines black female identities and engages a cross- cultural dialogue about black women’s lives in the Americas.