BLST 102 - Black Women's Lives:Autobiography As Protest

Institution:

Denison University

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Description:

This course explores autobiographies and personal narratives of Black women as a form of individual and collective liberation and protest. Because black women embody a dual outsider status in the society, narratives offer an opportunity to examine black women's resistance to race, class, and gender oppression. We will work with the multiple genres of autobiography such as poetry, essay, short narrative, memoir and major autobiographical works. These autobiographical texts will be paired with select readings from black studies and women's studies to provide Afrocentric, womanist and black feminist frameworks. Using these analytical tools we will examine Black women's narratives for themes of personal, social and political liberation. As a final project, students will write their own narrative of resistance and critique the ways their texts intersect strategies of resistance employed by Black women.(4 credits)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.denison.edu

Phone Number:

(740) 587-0810

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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