Instructor: Boateng
Online
How do contemporary writers reimagine the histories of slavery across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas? And how do these reimagining foreground feminist solidarities, indigenous knowledge systems, and global structures of power?
This course investigates neo slave narratives, contemporary literary works that revisit and reinvent the history and memory of slavery, through the lens of transnational feminist theory. We will explore how gender, race, sexuality, spirituality, ecology, and class shape the lived realities of enslaved women and their descendants, and how these texts create space for healing, resistance, and cross-border feminist alliances.
Drawing from African, Caribbean, and African American texts, students will analyze the political and emotional afterlives of slavery and examine how transnational feminist frameworks open new ways of reading trauma, agency, migration, and diasporic identity.
Students will engage with novels, critical theory, archival materials, and film, and will situate neo slave narratives within broader conversations about memory, global inequity, and feminist perspectives.