ENGL 3585 - [Feminist Literary Traditions]

(crosslisted) AMST 3585, FGSS 3585
(LA-AS)

Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

K. McCullough.

To what extent are there specific forms or themes that characterize women’s literature? How have women writers both extended and revised each other’s work? What issues have been most pressing for feminist writers? What political questions most vexing? This course will consider these questions as we read primarily British and US 19th- 21st century writers and examine what use they make of both canonical and experimental literary forms. To what extent, that is, does the need to tell a new story force or enable a writer to develop a new form in which to write? Reading may include texts by Jane Austen, Pat Barker, Alison Bechdel, Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, and Monique Truong.