Here Comes the Sun: Deconstructed Student Essays

AFR 283: Islands, Archipelagoes and Black Women's Literature

This course surveys and mediates on Black women’s literature that emanates from and explores islands and archipelagos. As Black women, historically and in the contemporary moment, express political, cultural, and spiritual desires beyond empire, the nation state and liberal democracy, they make embodied and discursive geographical turns to real and imagined islands and archipelagos. Through an exploration of Black women’s essays, memoir and poetry, the course prompts students to challenge the notion that both islands and Black women’s literature are “too insular” to have significance for how we understand the modern world and literary culture. 

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