Aesthetics & Black Womanhood: Contemporary Transatlantic Women's Novels
Course #: WGS 224L, Class #: 12505, Section #: 01
Description
This course explores novels by contemporary African American and Black British women writers who encourage us to rethink our understandings of womanhood and racial identity. It emphasizes aesthetics as a mode of resistance by examining the stylistic innovations employed by contemporary Black women writers to revise oppressive, dominant representations of blackness and womanhood in the US and the UK. The course traces the authors' use of traditional African and Black diasporic beliefs to infuse genres like science fiction and horror with new understandings of Black womanhood that are not restricted to heteronormative, white-centering conceptions of identity. Authors include Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, Helen Oyeyemi, Jackie Kay, Octavia Butler, and Rivers Solomon.
Prerequisites
Pre-req or Co-req=AFRSTY 100 OR AFRSTY 101 OR ENGL 102 OR WGS 100 OR WGS 110 OR WGS 150 OR Instructor's Consent
Course Details
Date / Time
1/25/27 - 5/12/27
TuTh 11a.m. – 12:15p.m.
Location
University Hall Y04-4110
Credits
3
Session
Regular Academic Session
Class Dates
1/25/2027 - 5/12/2027
Location
University Hall Y04-4110
General Ed Requirements
The Arts
Enrolled / Capacity
0 / 24
Status
Open