AFRICANA STUDIES 108c - Introduction to Black Women's Literature

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2007. MARK FOSTER. Examines the twin themes of love and sex as they relate to poems, stories, novels, and plays written by African-American women from the nineteenth century to the contemporary era. Explores such issues as Reconstruction, the Great Migration, motherhood, sexism, group loyalty, racial authenticity, intra- and interracial desire, homosexuality, and the intertextual unfolding of a literary tradition of black female writing, as well as how these writings relate to canonical African American male-authored texts and European American literary traditions. Students are expected to read texts closely, critically, as well as appreciatively. Authors may include Harriet Jacobs, Nella Larsen, Jessie Faucet, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Suzan- Lori Parks, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Terry McMillan, Sapphire. (Same as English 108 and Gender and Women's Studies 104.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bowdoin.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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