OSUN Theme: Inequalities
Intersectional Feminisms and/in Contemporary Literature
Term: September 8, 2023 – December 15, 2023Level: 300-Level
Day/Time: Fridays 3:00 AM EDT - 6:15 AM EDT
Instructor: Kathy-Ann Tan, Bard College Berlin
This course will center the writings of Black and brown feminists from the 80s and 90s that speak to the importance of the struggle for racial and social justice. We will put these early works in conversation with contemporary works of poetry and fiction that develop and queer the practice of intersectional feminism in the literary realm. Texts will include bell hooks’ Feminism is for Everybody (2000), Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life (2017), Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother (2022) and more.
Credits: 4 U.S. / 8 ECTS