Women Writ/Afr Diaspora

Fall 2012

Women Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora

Listed in: Black Studies, as BLST-203

Formerly listed as: BLST-27

Faculty

Carol Y. Bailey (Section 01)

Description

(Offered as BLST 203 [D] and WAGS 203.) This course focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts by black women writers based in Africa and the Americas. We will consider the stylistic choices that these women writers make in response to the broad range of challenges confronting them within the modern and postcolonial contexts in which they write.  The reading list varies from year to year.  This year we will read works by Edwidge Danicat, Marie Elena John, Buchi Emecheta, Chimamanda Adichie and Suzan-Lori Parks.

Fall semester. Visiting Lecturer Bailey.

Course times and locations

BLST 203 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM CLAR 100

Textbooks

Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.

ISBN	Title	Publisher	Author(s)	Comment	Price
0307594165	Home	Knopf, First Edition edition, 2012	Toni Morrison		TBD
0060837578	Unburnable	Harper Collins, 2006	Marie-Elena John		TBD
080761128X	Double Yoke	George Braziller, 2002	Emecheta Buchi		TBD
9780822332220	Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (New Americanists)	Duke University Press Books	John, Catherine		From $4.49-$29.68
1559361352	Venus	Theatre Communication Group, 1990	Suzan-Lori Parks		TBD
1845231252	Point of Departure	Peepal Tress Press Limited	Angela Barry		TBD
9780307271075	The Thing Around Your Neck	Knopf	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie		From $12.37-$27.69
9781463524944	Our Nig	CreateSpace, 2011	Harriet Wilson		TBD

Offerings

2022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022