Black Feminist Literary Aesthetic Practices

This course asks: What is Black feminist literature? We will attend to the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century novels and the theoretical premises of key texts in Black feminist criticism that serve as touchstones for the field. We will analyze representations of gender, sexuality, class, and race and question our definitions of habituated terms and reading methods. We will cultivate an active reading practice that enables our capacity for critical analysis, creative writing, and their intersection.