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Eng. 261 Syllabus continued
Course outline Schedule of Required Readings
Note: The syllabus lists Background Readings in case you would like to look at additional advanced readings or use these sources for your papers. You are not required to read these supplementary readings, but they provide good sources and references for papers.
Unit 1: Introduction to Women Writers
Aug. 26 Introductions DeShazer: “The Wife’s Lament,” pp. 417-18 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “I Sit and Sew” and “The Proletariat Speaks,” pp. 972-75 Cherrie Moraga, “For the Color of My Mother,” 869-70 and “La Guëra” 863-69 Sandra Cisneros, “I the Woman” and “Love Poem #1,” 576-78 Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise,” 1223-24
Supplementary reading: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1992). Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own: From Bronte to Lessing (1977), pp. 1-100. Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert, Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- century. (1979), pp. 3-104 Tillie Olsen, Silences (1979)
Material Constraints of Women Writers
Aug. 28 Required Reading: DeShazer: Prose Essay: Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One’s Own,” 14-43
Background reading: Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (1990) Louise DeSalvo, Virginia Woolf and the Impact of Childhood sexual Abuse on her Life and Work (1989)
Sept. 2 Required Reading: Prose Essays: Virginia Woolf, "A Room. . . ,“ 43-72, and Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," 323-31
Backgrounds: Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl, eds. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1997. Jean O'Barr and Mary Dwyer, Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up and Out (Virginia, 1992)
Unit 2: Historical Perspectives: 19c. Novels and Women's Lives
Sept. 4 Paper 1 Due (Writing SLO 1, 6) Required Reading: Play: Susan Glaspell, "Trifles," 980-900 Elaine Showalter, Essay: “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness” (1985), 352-74
Sept. 9 Required: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, pp. 112-171, and Charlotte Bronte’s Letter from Robert Southey, 238-39 Charlotte Bronte’s reply, 239-40
Backgrounds: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory of Women's Development (1982)
Sept. 11 Required: Required: Jane Austen,: Northanger Abbey, pp. 171-231
Backgrounds: Leslie W. Rabine, "Romance in the Age of Electronics:Harlequin Enterprises," in Robyn Warhol and Diane Herndl, Feminisms, pp. 878-93.
Sept. 16 Required: in DeShazar, short story: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” And Helene Cixous, essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” 390-405
Sept. 18 Review for Exam and read Required: in DeShazar, short story: Hisaye Yamamoto, “Seventeen Syllables,”298-307, and E-Reserve: essay: Naomi Scheman, “Anger and the Politics of Naming,” in Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, Nelly Furman, eds. Women and Language in Literature and Society, New York: Praeger, 1980, pp. 174-87
Sept. 23 Preliminary Exam (Comprehensive) (SLO 2, 3, 4)
Unit 3: Women Writing about Body, Sex, and Reproduction
Sept. 25 Required in DeShazar: Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 695-755
Adrienne Rich, "Temptations of a Motherless Child," in A. Rich, Lies. Secrets. and Silence: Selected Prose. 1966-1978 (1978) Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the and the Sociology of Gender (1978)
Sept. 30 Required Reading: Chopin, The Awakening, 755-78 and Judith Wright, poetry: “Stillborn,” “Letter,” 803-06 and Susan Suleiman, essay: “Writing and Motherhood,” 620-37
Oct. 2 In class: Video: “Interview: Adrienne Rich and Eavan Boland” and Patricia Hill Collins, essay: “Shifting the Center,” 638-54
Oct. 7 Journal check (you must turn in your journal today, including Oct. 7) DeShazer, poetry Anne Sexton, “The Abortion,” “In Celebration of my Uterus,” “For my Lover Returning to his Wife,” 531-34 Sylvia Plath, “The Disquieting Muses,” “Medusa,” “Nick and the Candlestick,” “Childless Woman,” Edge,” 812-18 Sharon Olds, “That Year,” “The Language of the Brag,” “The Girl” and “Sex Without Love,” 558-62 Audre Lorde, poetry, “Love Poem,: “Chain,” and “Restoration” 540-43 Audre Lorde, essay: “Poetry is Not a Luxury.”
Backgrounds: DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-century Women Writers (1985).
Oct. 9 Required Readings in DeShazar:Short Stories: Margaret Atwood, “Giving Birth,” 826-36 Angela Carter, “Wolf Alice,” 1031-1037 Dionne Brand, “Madame Alaird’s Breasts,” 572-76 Autobiography: Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman,” 307-16 and E-Reserve: Sandra Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power”
Backgrounds: Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men. Women and Rape (1975) Angela Davis, "Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist," in Davis, Women, Race and Class (1983) Sylvana Tomaselli and Roy Porter, Rape: an Historical and Social Inquiry (1989) Peggy Reeves Sanday, Gang Rape: Sex. Brotherhood.and Privilege on Campus (1990)
Oct. 14 Paper 2 due (writing skills: 2, 4, 5) In class: film: “The Color Purple”
Unit 4: Afro-American Women Writers
Oct. 16 Required reading: Poetry in DeShazer: Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Mother,” “A Bronzeville Mother. . . ,“ 806-812 Lucille Clifton, “June 20,”“Daughters,” “Sarah’s Promise,” “Naomi Watches as Ruth Sleeps,” 818-20 Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Poem for my Sons,” 851-53 and June Jordan, “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phyllis Wheatley,” 1064-73
Backgrounds: ------, "Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells," in Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
Oct. 21 Required Reading in Deshazer: Short story, Jamacia Kincaid, “Xuela,” 1043-58 and E-Reserve, Essay: Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, eds. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001, 95-105.
Backgrounds: Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America (1972) Gloria T. Hull, et. al But Some of Us are Brave (1982) Cherre Morgana, et. al This Bridge Called my Back (1981) Gloria Anzaldua, Making Face. Making Soul (1992)
Oct. 23 Required Reading in DeShazar: Short stories: Toni Morrison, “Recitif,” 1224-37, and Anzia Yezierska, “Soap and Water,” 1192-97
Unit 5: Women's Poetry as Re-Vision
Oct. 28 Required Reading: in DeShazar: Adrienne Rich, Essay: “Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” 1094-1106 and poetry, “Diving into the Wreck,” “Inscriptions,” 1108-1121, 960-62 May Sarton, poetry, “Journey Toward Poetry,” “The Muse as Medusa,” and “Of the Muse,” 295-97 and Muriel Rukeyser, “Bubble of Air,” “Letter from the Front,” “Kathe Kollwitz,” “Despisals,” 1205-12
Supplementary Reading: Estella Lauter, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by twentieth-century Women (1984) Jane Roberta Cooper, ed. Reading Adrienne Rich (1983)
Unit 6: Gender/Sexuality
Oct. 30 Required reading: DeShazar, poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Fatal Interview,” 530-31 H.D., “Eurdyce,” “Oread,” “The Walls Do Not Fall,”1197-1205 E-Reserve, Marilyn Hacker, sonnets, pp. 2280-87
Backgrounds: Marjorie Garber, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Erotics of Everyday Life (1995)
Nov. 4 Required Reading: E-Reserve: Short story: Radclyffe Hall, “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself” and Essay: Adrienne Rich,”Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience,” Catharine R. Stimpson and Ethel Spector Person, Women: Sex and Sexuality. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 62-91
Backgrounds: Terry Castle, Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) Laura Doan, Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern Lesbian Culture (2001) Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Man (1981) Henry Ablelove, Michele Anna Barale, David M. Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993)
Unit 7: Native American Women Writers
Nov. 6 Required Reading: Poetry in DeShazer: Joy Harjo, “Fire,” “Deer Ghost,” “City of Fire,” “Heartshed,” 568 Paula Gunn Allen, essay, “Who Is Your Mother?” 888-98 E-Reserve: Linda Hogan, poetry: “Bamboo,” “The Grandmother’s Songs,” “Two” from Hogan, The Book of Medicines
Nov. 11 No classes; university holiday
Nov. 13 Required Reading Linda Hogan, Solar Storms, pp. 1-80
Supplementary: Linda Hogan, Book of Medicines (1993) _____, Dwellings (1995) _____. Mean Spirit (1990)
Nov. 18 Required Reading: Hogan, Solar Storms, pp. 80-312
Backgrounds: Paula Gunn Allen, Studies in American Indian Literature (1983) ------. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986) ------. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (1983) Anne Cameron, Daughters of Copper Woman (1978) Leslie Silko, Almanac of the Dead (1991) ------. Storyteller (1981)
Nov. 20 Required Reading: Hogan, Solar Storms, pp. 312-351
Supplementary Reading: Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine (1984) ------ The Antelope Wife (1998) Beth Brant, A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection of Native American Indian Women. (1988) -----. Mohawk Trail. (1985)
Nov. 25 Paper 3 due (Writing skills 1-6) Film Clips: “Whale Rider” Required reading: DeShazer, Keri Hulme, short story: “One Whale Singing,” 853-60
Nov. 26-30 Thanksgiving Vacation: No Class
Unit 8: Women as Playwrights
Dec. 2 Required Reading: E-Reserve Play: Caryl Churchill, "Top Girls," Act I, scene i,
Dec. 4 Reading Journals Due (writing skills 1, 6) “Dinner Party” Review for Final
Dec. 9 12:00-2:00 Final Exam (NAU schedule) (SLO 1-8)
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