Course details

Name: ENLT - 372

Title: WOMEN PROSE WRITERS

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
Course Objective: To introduce you to various (modern) women's voices from around the world in the form of fiction and essay-writing and to discuss themes relevant to these writers and (thus) concerns to women (and humanity) in general. What does it mean to be female, using such categories and constructs as politics, economics, history, sexuality, and nationality? Is there a woman’s way of thinking or writing that differs from that of male writers?
Texts will probably include:
Sand, George, _Indiana_
Chopin, Kate _The Awakening_
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own and Other Essays
Esquivel, Laura, Like Water for Chocolate
Allende, Isabel, Paula
Aidoo, Ama Ata, Changes: A Love Story
Cliff, Michelle, No Telephone to Heaven
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
Winterson, Jeannette, The Passion
Morrison, Toni, Sula


Last updated on By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 am To 2:15 am

Graduation requirements:

  • Any Literature (1e)
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  • Post-1900 (1d)
  • International Issues (3a)
  • Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No