printer friendly pageENGLISH 156: 'Women in Rage': Conditions of Production in Women's Literature
By looking at writers like Mary Shelly who turned her marital rage into Frankenstein, this course will trace the different ways in which women's anger emerges in literature. As we examine the relationship anger has to the production of literature, we will also observe how women's rage has been rendered in major literary works since the 19th century. Contemporary novels written by women about women such as Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, and Luster by Raven Leilani will be placed within a longer lineage of literature depicting "women in rage," which includes Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the eponymous novels Anna Keranina, and Madam Bovary. We will consider Virginia Woolf's provocation in A Room of One's Own as she trains our attention onto the conditions of women's production of literature, and how scarcity translates onto the page. Thinking about rage opens lines of inquiry not only into emotional worlds but into the socio-economic ine
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By looking at writers like Mary Shelly who turned her marital rage into Frankenstein, this course will trace the different ways in which women's anger emerges in literature. As we examine the relationship anger has to the production of literature, we will also observe how women's rage has been rendered in major literary works since the 19th century. Contemporary novels written by women about women such as Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, and Luster by Raven Leilani will be placed within a longer lineage of literature depicting "women in rage," which includes Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the eponymous novels Anna Keranina, and Madam Bovary. We will consider Virginia Woolf's provocation in A Room of One's Own as she trains our attention onto the conditions of women's production of literature, and how scarcity translates onto the page. Thinking about rage opens lines of inquiry not only into emotional worlds but into the socio-economic inequalities and differences that undergird artistic production. Relying upon theories of anger and rage offered by feminist thinkers such as Audre Lorde and Sarah Ahmed, we will chart our path through major novels and plays of the 19th and 20th centuries, and find our way to the furious literature of the contemporary moment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Saeed, R. (PI)
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