African
Fiction and Films:
MONDAYS
/ WEDNESDAYS: 12:30p.m – 1:45p.m.
Dr.
Ba-Curry
This course will be an analysis through literature and films of the issues that contemporary West African women have to face. Through videos produced by African filmmakers and novels written by female African writers, we will explore the voices of women as they endeavor to negotiate the societal norms of Western Africa and as they create feasible alternatives for their future and the development of their continent. The course will focus on issues of particular relevance such as female circumcision, forced marriage, polygamy, the role of women in their national economy, and female political protest among others.
FLIERS
ARE AVAILABLE IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
AND
IN THE WOMEN’S STUDIES CENTER (DM 212)