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Caribbean Woman Writers will both
explore the woman's literature of the Caribbean, while interrogating the idea of
the Caribbean itself, questioning the nature of this geography as a cohesive
space, rather than a space constructed from both within and without.
Drawing on the definition of "Caribbean" employed by the Caribbean Studies
Concentration, which recognizes the "current debates about "the Caribbean" as a
geographical, political, cultural or analytical category," Caribbean Woman
Writers will examine Anglophone and English translations of other traditions,
including, Francophone and Hispanaphone writings by Caribbean woman writers.
Post Colonial and African feminist literary criticism will be used to explore
the intersectionalities of race, gender, class, and sexuality on this literature
as well as its connection to the writing of African and Diaspora women. |