LIT146 CM - The Domestic Life of Empire

A look at Domestic Life, as it is portrayed in the writing of Women in the Centre (Europe) and in the writing of women living in the Periphery (Africa and the Caribbean) and ways in which they were an influence, through literary culture in particular, on each other. Among the authors to be read: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Jean Rhys, Phyllis Alfrey, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Conde, Rosa Guy, Mary Prince, Merle Hodge, Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 146 CM