ClassInfo - Spring 2015 African Amer & African Studies Classes

Spring 2015 | AFRO 3625W Section 001: Black Women Writers in the Diaspora (68760)

Instructor(s): Njeri Githire
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
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015

Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 155
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Summer 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2022

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 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
6 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68760/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 13 November 2014

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