ENGL 713 - Special Topics in Women Literature

3 Credits

513 Prerequisite(s): None An in-depth, cross-cultural study of selected women’s literary expression and representation encompassing the genres of fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, orature, and film. These works will be grouped under the topics: early Western feminist thought; women’s autobiographical writing; the literature of women in migration; post-colonial and post-slavery women’s writing; women’s orature and women’s representation in film. Current feminist critical theory will be studied and applied where appropriate with the respective social, political, cultural and historical contexts of the works being taken into accounts.