AFRO 3625W is also offered in Summer 2023
AFRO 3625W is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2013 | AFRO 3625W Section 001: Black Women Writers in the Diaspora (58514)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Works of black women writers from Europe, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Novels, drama, films, and essays.
- Class Description:
- Welcome to AFRO 3625W! The second half of the 20th century witnessed, in the literary arena, an explosion of writing by black women in Africa and its diasporas. But although there has been an increasing interest in these women's writings, it can hardly be said that they occupy a central place in literary and critical theory. This course seeks to explore black female literary voices from Africa and its diasporas. Topics of particular interest will include, though not limited to, colonial patriarchy and the erosion of traditional values, the dynamics of gender in postcolonial contexts, the intersections between the public and private spheres in women's narratives, the struggle to negotiate gender, racial, class boundaries, national memory and national identity in women's writings on displacement, as well as women's agency through spatial/social mobility.
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
25% Written Homework
10% Reflection Papers
25% In-class Presentations
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 90-125 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
6 Homework Assignment(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58514/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 November 2012
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