English

ENGL5983	Women's Writing in the Atlantic World (O)	3 ch (3S) (W)
This seminar explores writing in English from the early modern to the contemporary period by English women and by Indigenous, Black, and Settler women living in what we now call northeastern North America. The Atlantic World is defined by the colonial project that links the Americas with England and western Africa and by the circulation of commodities, ideas, diseases, and enslaved and free people. The course looks at how women's writing variously participated in or resisted this colonial history in thinking about issues such as race, slavery, nature, place, violence, history, and gender and sexuality. Prerequisite: B+ average in ENGL; open to ENGL Honours students.