Women Writers

Catalog description

This course prowls the house of fiction’s dangerous and often forbidden spaces employing the visions and voices of transgressive agents, who go places they should not, wrestle monsters literal and figurative, and rescue bodies (of information and imagination) essential to us all. Readings: selected 19th, 20th, and 21st century fiction by women, from A Room of One’s Own , to In the Cut, to Swamplandia , and lots of great works in between. Satisfies the LTRQ Ways of Knowing requirement. Satisfies the Diversity requirement of the English major.