Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature (368-0-20)

Topic

Great Women Writers

Instructors

Christine Froula

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-331: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

We'll study selected works by border-crossing, internationally famous twentieth- and twenty-first century women writers who address an array of issues in women's lives in genres, forms, and media ranging across essays, fiction, poetry, drama, graphic narrative, cinema, and theory. Authors to be chosen from Virginia Woolf (England), Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand), Jean Rhys (Dominica/England), Toni Morrison (USA), Gloria Anzaldúa (USA), Marjane Satrapi (Iran), Annie Ernaux (France), Anna Burns (Northern Ireland), Elena Ferrante (Italy), Arundhati Roy (India), Kate Hamill (USA), and Lili Elbe (Denmark), with supplementary texts by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, bell hooks, Audre Lorde.

Class Attributes

Advanced Expression
Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area