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Academic Year 2004/2005


Selected Caribbean Women Writers
AFAM 337 SP

Crosslistings:
AMST 218
ENGL 337
WMST 337

Novels by Winter, Gilroy and Hodge provide perspectives from an older generation of Caribbean-born writers publishing in English after 1960. Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde and other writers associated with the Black Women Writers Renaissance will be considered anew. The works of younger emigres to North America will broaden the exploration of language, geography and cultural hybridity. Readings include critical perspectives from Caribbean scholars.

MAJOR READINGS

Beryl Gilroy, BOY SANDWICH
Beryl Gilroy, FRANGIPANI HOUSE
Merle Hodge, CRICK CRACK, MONKEY
Sylvia Winter, THE HILLS OF HEBRON
Michelle Cliff, CLAIMING AN INDENTITY THEY TAUGHT ME TO DESPISE
Jamaica Kincaid, A SMALL PLACE
Audre Lorde, ZAMI
Audre Lorde, SISTER/OUTSIDER
Paule Marshall, PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
Edwidge Danticat, FARMING THE BONES
M.J. Fenwick, ed., SISTERS OF CALIBAN: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN POETS OF THE CARIBBEAN
Myriam J.A. Chancy, SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES: AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS IN EXILE
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, ed., CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS: ESSAYS FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Carole Boyce Davies & Elaine Savory Fido, OUT OF THE KUMBLA: CARIBBEAN WOMEN AND LITERATURE
MaComere: JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS AND SCHOLARS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly assignments, oral presentation, final paper.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: AFAM201 OR ENGL201 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005


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