Cont Irish Women's Writing

Catalog description

Designed to give you an overview of contemporary Irish women’s writing, this course will explore the thematic nexus of gender, class, disability, migrancy, immigration, and reproductive justice. In doing so, it will pay considerable attention to Ireland’s history of institutionalizing women in Magdalen laundries, asylums and mother-and-baby homes. This course will showcase some of the most vibrant voices in contemporary Irish writing, including but not limited to Anne Enright, Marina Carr, Sally Rooney and Anna Burns.