Summary

This course invites discussion of some of the major concerns explored in the literature of women of color. We will discuss the focal place given to history in the writing of these authors; feminism and its concerns; how women writers of color approach topics such as enslavement and forced migration; and colonialism’s effect on ideas and attitudes toward women of color. This course examines how the voices and sensibility of women writers of color contribute to our understanding of the experiences of women at home and in the diaspora.