AFRCNA 0242 - AFRICANA URBAN WOMAN

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to literature by African American, Caribbean, and African women writers. Published within the last two decades, the novels in the course detail the lives of female protagonists who learn to adjust to family, educational, economic, and other social changes while navigating urban spaces. Using critical perspectives within Africana Studies, the course teaches students to examine and understand the cultural, historical and theoretical contexts surrounding the literary works. Students will also become more skilled in conducting detailed analyses of literary features, such as voice, language, structure and style, to better comprehend the characters quest for self-fulfillment. In addition to closely reading the texts and providing thorough critiques, students will identify and assess the use of a wide range of real-life themes in the narratives, including structural inequality, immigration, motherhood, gender, identity, crime and violence, to further explore the insight that the readings offer on urban environments and lifestyles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, Gender, Sexuality & Women's St, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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