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.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
LIT-343
Prerequisite
One course in Women's and Gender Studies (WMGST) and some coursework in comparative literature or literary theory or consent of the instructor