WMGS 380 - Contempory Black Women Writers

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Trinity College

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The past decade has witnessed a flowering of cultural production from young black women. This course locates contemporary black transnational women writers and filmmakers-from the 1990's into the present-within a larger tradition of black women's literary and cultural production and black feminist thought. We will consider issues of race, gender, sexuality, cultural trauma, subjectivity and aesthetics from the post-Civil Rights and postcolonial context in which these contemporary works of fiction arise. Our primary goal is to examine the ways in which these contemporary black women writers revise and diverge from the political and aesthetic concerns of their predecessors. We will read texts from the US, the Caribbean and West Africa in order to engage the possibilities and limitations of theorizing from a black transnational frame of reference. Seating for this class will be limited to 20 student 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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