This class introduces students to the study of ‘writing women,’ i.e. to women writers and their representation in fiction, as well as to the issues and stylistic, formal, and cultural practices that are involved when girls and women are written or write themselves into the literary and cultural imagination in North America. With a focus on Canada and the United States in the twentieth century, students will study not only select narrative texts (short stories, full novels and excerpts) but also the diverse, intersecting histories of feminist movements (such as Black, Chicana, Indigenous, or eco feminisms) and their works of feminist literary criticism.

Please acquire copies (print or electronic) of the following book-length texts and start reading them as soon as possible:
• Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street (1984)
Our university book store on the boulevard has some copies available for purchase.

Further primary and secondary material and information will be made available on Stud.IP. Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty students. The class is open to M.A. E-SC students studying the Extension Modules 1 and 2, students studying the Vertiefungs- or Profilmodul in the M.A. Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft as well as international exchange students. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.

Requirements
• active participation in weekly meetings,
• in-depth knowledge of the reading material,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.

This class introduces students to the study of ‘writing women,’ i.e. to women writers and their representation in fiction, as well as to the issues and stylistic, formal, and cultural practices that are involved when girls and women are written or write themselves into the literary and cultural imagination in North America. With a focus on Canada and the United States in the twentieth century, students will study not only select narrative texts (short stories, full novels and excerpts) but also the diverse, intersecting histories of feminist movements (such as Black, Chicana, Indigenous, or eco feminisms) and their works of feminist literary criticism.

Please acquire copies (print or electronic) of the following book-length texts and start reading them as soon as possible:
• Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street (1984)
Our university book store on the boulevard has some copies available for purchase.

Further primary and secondary material and information will be made available on Stud.IP. Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty students. The class is open to M.A. E-SC students studying the Extension Modules 1 and 2, students studying the Vertiefungs- or Profilmodul in the M.A. Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft as well as international exchange students. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.

Requirements
• active participation in weekly meetings,
• in-depth knowledge of the reading material,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.