ENGL 307
Caribbean Women Writers Fall 2016
Division I
Cross-listed COMP 268 / WGSS 268 / AFR 327
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This course is designed to explore the issues and themes commonly found in literatures of the Caribbean written by women. We will consider prose and poetry published in English in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reading the texts from several different angles – including colonialism, globalization, and migration – with feminism as the overarching/organizing theme of the course. In addition to the general literary study of author, genre and discourse, our methodology will include strategies of close reading, contextualization, and a range of interdisciplinary critical approaches utilized to assess the significance and role of Caribbean women’s writings as part of national and women’s literatures and to explore questions of identity formation and/or disintegration, gender, social status, and ethnicity. We will be examining the well-known “forerunners” of the genre – possibly writers such as Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys, and Lorna Goodison – although not necessarily their most famous texts. We will also read works from relative newcomers – possibly Zadie Smith, Edwidge Danticat, and Patricia Powell – to determine how they continue old trends while blazing new trails.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 1046
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on class participation, 2-3 short papers (5-7 pages), and a 10-page final paper or project
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions: Division I
Notes: meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AFR or WGSS; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP or ENGL
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 268 Division I ENGL 307 Division I WGSS 268 Division II AFR 327 Division II

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