140359 VO Mother-Daughter Relationships in Europhone Women's Fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa (2012S)

Students will:
i. explore the tension between African mother’s space of veneration and space of abjection
ii. identify, interpret, and analyze the nuances of mother-daughter relationships in europhone African fiction written by women
iii. engage with the socio-cultural, political, and conceptual contexts that frame the representation of these relationships
iv. determine the extent to which intra-textual parameters such as the socio-professional profile of mother and daughter as well as narration by the daughter or her fictional surrogate inform the textualization of mother-daughter relations in chosen narratives
v. write a convincing and cohesive essay at the end of the course