Surveys in American Women's Literatures

Catalog description

Surveys traditions in American women's writings, covering a wide range of texts or focusing on a single theme, genre, period, literary movement, or cultural tradition. Topics may include women's writings about feminism, family, work, nationalism, or social justice; women's autobiography, poetry, experimental prose, or domestic fiction; 19-century literature by women, contemporary women's poetry or colonial women's writing; realist, postmodern, or sentimental fiction by American women; African American, New England, Native American, Southern, or working-class writing; Chicano, Latina, or lesbian literary traditions. Refer to department website for offered topics.