LIT 3383 Spring 2020 Rather

This course offers opportunities to look at the short story and the novel as rhetorical tools employed by women writers around the world to register patriarchy and patriarchal violence. We will read Japanese, Polish, Brazilian, Pakistani and Indian fiction writers and focus on the narrative strategies the women writers of these traditions resorted to to subvert patriarchy and create alternative imaginary worlds against their male-dominated realities. Students are required to produce a short mid-term paper and a long critical/creative final paper.