AFR 232
Love, Sex, Madness in Afro-diasporic Women's Writings Spring 2015
Division II
Cross-listed RLFR 232
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This course explores the themes of love, sex, and madness in fiction and films by and/or about women of African descent. From the Caribbean to West Africa, from Europe to the US, these three themes function as the lenses through which women have challenged traditional ideas of citizenship, family, gender roles and political power. What, for example, is the connection between the Duvalier regime in Haiti and women’s sexual desire? How does the figure of “the mad Creole woman” challenge the exportation of Victorian values to the Caribbean? How might an African woman’s body be read as a site of anticolonial resistance? These are some of the questions we will work through as we examine works by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Maryse Condé, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Chimamanda Adichie. Conducted in English. For students seeking RLFR credit, select readings will be in French, and written work will be in French.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3984
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active class participation, weekly reading response papers, a 5- to 7-page paper and final project
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the Gaudino option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: given to French and Africana Studies majors and concentrators
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
RLFR 232 Division I AFR 232 Division II

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