Exploring the Moral Imaginary in Black Women's Fictional Literature

Harvard HDS

This course will bring a womanist theological lens to black women’s fictional literature. Black women’s fictional literary tradition is a source for understanding black women’s social and religious experience as it creatively tells the story of how black women have navigated the multi-layered and multi-nefarious dynamics that have shaped their living. As such, this literature provides keen insight into black women’s moral, spiritual and theological imagination. Black women’s literary…