Module Identifier | EN32020 | |||||||||||
Module Title | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S FICTION | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Diane Watt | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hour seminars | ||||||||||
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Weeks 1-3: The Women'r Movement and Women's Writing from the 1970s
Issues addressed include women's writing and women readers, women's rights, the domestic sphere, women in the workplace, sexual liberation, class, ethnicity, ecology.
Weeks 4-6: Feminist Concerns in Women's Writing of the 1980s
Issues addressed include genre fiction and feminist publishing, gender and sexual politics, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, lesbian writing, matrilineages, motherhood, race, identity.
Weeks 7-10: Gender Politics and Fiction in the 1990s and into the 21st century
Issues addressed include postmodernism, queer theory and queer writing, the body, the gothic, the politics of location, female friendships.
Depending on availability and recent developments in the field, ten texts may be taken from the following list:
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (1973)
Angela Carter, Fireworks (1974), The Passion of the New Eve
Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977)
Marge Piercy, Women on the Edge of Time (1978)
Zoe Fairbairns, Benefits
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
AS Byatt, Possession
Alison Lurie, The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988)
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Rose Tremain, Sacred Country (1992)
Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride (1993)
Janice Galloway, Foreign Parts (1994)
Leonaro Britto, Dat's Love (1995)
Stevie Davies, Four Dreamers and Emily (1996)
Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault (1996)
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet (1998) or Fingersmith (2002)
This module is at CQFW Level 6