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Instructors: Dr. Pia Wiegmink
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.122
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: AS 122
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Did you know that in 1872 three-quarters of all the novels published in the United States were written by women? It was not until one hundred years later, in the wake of the emergence of feminist literary criticism and theory – which was fuelled by the women’s rights movement – that the multifaceted character of American women’s literature was rediscovered, republished, and reinterpreted. This seminar introduces students to this broad variety of literature written by American women. We will read works written by women from the colonial era until today. We will read literature by Americans who Nathanial Hawthorne infamously referred to as the “damned mob of scribbling women.” We will analyze how novels, short stories, poems, plays, and other texts challenged the supposedly “universal” history of white men of letters in America, and we will discuss how these works present alternative visions of the “land of the free” and its global entanglements.
Recommended reading list:
An electronic reader with all required course materials will be available in the first session.
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