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Fall 2020
Mar 29, 2024
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ENAM 0114 - Reading Women's Writing
*Reading Women's Writing: Living a Feminist Life from Mary Wollstonecraft to Sara Ahmed* In this course we will investigate the tradition of women's writing in English from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on the complex relationships among writing, sexuality, race, and gender. We will consider the ways in which writers identifying as female respond to--and often subvert--traditional literary themes and conventions, looking critically as we do so at our own interpretive assumptions as readers. An organizing focus of our reading will be the articulation and/or suppression of female anger and other related emotions in a variety of repressive contexts. Though our focus will be primarily on the interpretation of literary works, we will also develop an awareness of relevant debates in feminist theory, from Mary Wollstonecraft’s revolutionary contribution to notions of female education to Sara Ahmed’s concept of the feminist “killjoy.” Other texts may include: Jane Austen, /Mansfield Park/; Virginia Woolf, /Mrs Dalloway/; Toni Morrison, /Sula/; Tsitsi Dangarembga, /Nervous Conditions/; Brittney Cooper, /Eloquent Rage/; Carmen Maria Machado, /Her Body and Other Parties/; Kristen Roupenian, /You Know You Want This/, Rebecca Traister, /Good and Mad/: /The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger/. For on campus students, discussions will be held in person outside when possible. 3 hrs. sem.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours
0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours
0.000 TO 2.000 Other hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Discussion, Lecture
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Literature Division
English & American Literatures Department

Course Attributes:
LIT


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