FG 280 - Topics in Women Studies

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Colorado College

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Focuses on various topics in literature. Courses will vary from year to year; taught by Women's Studies faculty and visiting faculty. Block 3: Topics in Feminist Studies: Black Women Writing About Slavery. The theme of this course takes into account various strategies Black women writers have used to re-imagine themselves outside of the definitions that slavery and the popular imagination have imposed. We will examine different literary genres, as well as works written from the nineteenth century to the present. Texts include those that deal directly deal with slavery and those that do not. An important conceptual model for the course is of a palimpsest; thus our task is essentially an "archaeological" one as we reconstruct a hidden history and the efforts of some to write about it-on the blurred and erased pages of their sisters. We look mostly at contemporary writers like Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Gayl Jones, Sherley Ann Williams, Alice Walker, and Angela Davis. We examine Black and white feminists' theories on the relationship between maternity and the maternal role and the historical literary processes of "degendering" and "regendering" Black womanhood. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and English 380.) 1 unit - Seward. Block 4: Topics in Feminist Studies: The Poet as Witness to War. Writing workshop which explores poetry as a means of writing about war and its social consequences in the tradition of poets who wrote as soldiers, protesters, distant onlookers and innocent civilians. Critiques the role of the poet in society, in times of war (especially Vietnam and Iraq) and in speaking truth to power. Student work produced in a class anthology. Prerequisite: ( Writing Intensive). (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and English 286 and Southwest Studies 280.) 1 unit - Martinez.

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.coloradocollege.edu

Phone Number:

(719) 389-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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