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

Topic

Women Writing Worldliness

Instructors

Christine Froula

Meeting Info

University Hall 118: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

In a spirit of "worldly"—multicentric, not monocentric—critical thinking, we'll study selected works by border-crossing, internationally renowned 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 include 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), Alison Bechdel (USA), Elena Ferrante (Italy), and Lili Elbe (Denmark), with supplementary texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Audre Lorde, and others.

Class Attributes

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