2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women’s Fiction


Traces the history of the Caribbean through contemporary women’s writing from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone areas. Examines the portrayal of Caribbean women from slavery and colonial times to the present day, and the depiction of women’s participation in the construction of their past. Authors studied may include Julia Alvarez, Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys and Mayra Santos Febres.

Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP and DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically