• Mon 12-14 B5078 (PIIPPONEN)

This course focuses on gender and writing, specifically on women?s writing. We will mainly examine North American writers (novels and short stories), from the end of the 19th century to the present ? for example, such writers as Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Alice Walker, Katherine V. Forrest. Thus, the texts will range from 19th century ?New Woman? fiction to African-American stories about passing to contemporary lesbian detective fiction. Through these texts we will analyze the issues of gender, ethnicity, class, desire, and place, and we will also discuss a number of critical texts.

Assessment: essay and class contribution

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