Topics in Women & Literature: Modern American Literature by Women of Color: The Intersection Between Race and Gender
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MWF 1
The course will cover a broad range of literature from various genre, including fiction, drama, poetry and non-fiction prose, that represent the ways in which race and ethnicity play a role in gender formation. As such, we
will look at the ways in which women of color have extended the parameters of feminist literary criticism to address racial difference. We will also examine the kinds of textual strategies these writers employ to represent the contingency of race and gender. Amongill read are: Zora Neale Hurston; Toni Morrison; Sandra Cisneros; Lorna Dee Cervantes; Judith Ortiz Coffer; Cherrie Moraga; Leslie Marmon Silko; and Maxine Hong Kingson.
updated 2006-02-20
