Contemporary African Women's Literature

The aim of the course is to introduce students to novels like Head's A Question of Power , El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile , Adochie's Half of a Yellow Sun and other major prose works by contemporary African women writers. It will present the African woman as a writer, her environment and her commitments. The emphasis is on the writing of continental African women, but will include works of other women writers. For a brief but necessary historical background to the course, it will be introduced with selections from Margaret Busby's Daughters of Africa . Enrollment limited to 25.