AFCS 2455 — American Women Writers

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ICusually offered: falltypical days: ThBostonTraditional

Surveys the diversity of American women’s writing to ask what it means to describe writers as disparate as Phillis Wheatley, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, and Alison Bechdel as part of the same 'tradition.' With attention to all genres of American women’s writing, introduces issues of race, genre and gender; literary identification; canons; the politics of recuperation; silence and masquerade; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; sexual and literary politics, compulsory heterosexuality, and more.

Prerequisites

• one of:
  • ENGL 1102 (min C)
  • ENGL 1111 (min C)
  • ENGW 1102 (min C)
  • ENGW 1111 (min C)
  • WRIT 201M
  • ENGW 1113 (min C)
  • ENGW 1114 (min C)

Offering history

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Professors

Fall

• Carla Kaplan (100% of students) · reviews

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