LIT3383-Summer 2025-Rafferty

This course requires the reading and analysis of a broad range of literary genres of American women writers. Specifically, this course covers novels, short stories, and poetry written during the socio-political shifts that occurred after the Second World War and prior to the end of that century. Included authors are Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rebecca West, Flannery O’Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Anne Sexton, Ursula K. Le Guin, Adrienne Rich, Helen Fielding, Sandra Cisneros, Jhumpa Lahiri, and E. Annie Proulx. Written analysis of literary works will be required, and students will be provided opportunities to practice critical interpretation in daily discussions.