Women's Revolutionary Fiction of the Americas

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This course will examine literature by women writers from Grenada, the Dominican Republic, Antigua, Haiti, Argentina, Chile, and the United States. Specifically, we will be exploring the following questions: How do women respond to political violence? How do women participate in nation building? How does the legacy of colonialism shape women’s political organizing? How is women’s labor in revolutionary movements marginalized? What particular organizing strategies do women draw upon? How does gender shape women’s experience of revolution, both within and across cultures? (How) do women’s revolutionary activities contribute to a transnational feminist movement?