Women Writers, Literature and Afro-feminisms in the Caribbean

Three-week course, second session

The literary scene of Latin America and the Caribbean has witnessed the visibility of a growing number of writers of African descent in recent decades. We are talking about a literature that tells "another story", a story associated with recognition, identities and that seeks to make other contexts and realities visible. The literature written by women of African descent in the Caribbean proposes new categories of analysis related to identities, searches for new spaces and struggles for recognition and self-affirmation. This course analyzes the influences and impacts of ethnic belonging, citizenship, relationships with one's own body, and the social environment in the literary production of women authors from the Caribbean. It will study differential elements in this literature, through the review of texts, as well as the scholarship on the subject. (.5 unit)