Womanist Literature

3 credits · Graduate School

This seminar examines the Black women's literary tradition as a repository for doing constructive ethics. Attention will be given to how Black women of various periods, cultures, and literary traditions have brought distinctive imaginative and critical perspectives to bear on "the sacred." In addition to addressing the complicated presence of religious themes, biblical references, and theological issues in these texts, literary and religious methods of "reading" and "writing" will be employed by comparing constructive and hermeneutical approaches among both literary writers and womanist ethicists. [3]