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ENGL 183 SC - Women Explain Themselves: Gendered Prose


This course examines how gendered literary conventions have shaped and constrained women’s first-person prose across a variety of genres, both fictional and non-fictional, from the seventeenth century through the present. We will investigate how women negotiated these conventions within conversion narratives, slave narratives, novels, autobiography, and essays. And we will pay special attention to how contemporary writers - including non-binary and gender-nonconforming writers - have invoked this literary history in their work. For the final assignment, students will draft and workshop an essay - modeled on readings by Rebecca Solnit, Alice Walker, and others - that fuses literary criticism with personal narrative grounded in gendered experience.

Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Every other year


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