WMGST-343 Women Writing Against the Grain

Advanced seminar connecting theories of identity focusing on race, class, gender and sexuality, with  poetry, fiction, memoir and film. Drawing on feminist theories of Epistemology, Literary Representation, Intersectionality, Standpoint Theory/Situated Knowledge, Queer Theory, and Narratology we will read, discuss and write about Life in the Iron Mills (1861); The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866); To The Lighthouse (1927)The Woman Warrior (1976);  House on Mango Street (1984);  Bastard Out of Carolina (1992)Hunger; A memoir of (My)Body (2017), and the films The Hours  and Boys Don’t cry

Maximum Enrollment

Seminar (12)

(Writing Intensive, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

LIT-343

Prerequisite

One course in Women's Studies and some coursework in comparative literature or literary theory or consent of the instructor