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Course Description

Summary

Women writers are notoriously overlooked by the canon, often falling into obscurity in favor of male writers’ contributions, or only recognized under the “woman writer” category. In this 2-credit class, we will trace the lineage of women’s literary invention, including their contributions to stream of consciousness writing, the Nouveau Roman, Oulipo, and contemporary experimental fiction, and will question what makes literary experiments that of a woman writer. We will read short selections by writers such as Murasaki Shikibu, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Anne Garréta, Toni Morrison, Leonora Carrington, Adrienne Kennedy, Anne Carson, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Students will have the option of submitting creative or critical responses to the assigned reading, and the opportunity to expand one of their responses into a longer final project.