Following World War One, Paris began to attract people from all over the world including significant numbers of male and female African-American writers. They formed a growing dynamic community in the French capital and they created over the years a vibrant expatriate literary scene. This course will focus on the analysis of three African-American female novelists who spent time in France and who derived inspiration from their French experience. It will be the study of the complex and varied experience of black American women from the Harlem Renaissance period to modern times. Selected female novelists: Barbara Chase Riboud (1939-), Paule Marshall (1929-) and Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961).

Fliers are available in the English Department (DM 453) and in the Women Studies Center (DM 212)