EWL 309 Women Write the World
What concerns do women writers across centuries and geographies ask about their role in their societies and homes? Beginning with the Middle Ages, we will read representative texts from different points in history and from various cultural contexts. Texts may include Margery Kempe, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of the Bones. We will also look at film and art related to these texts.