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Fall 2016 LIT 499-05

Topic: Global Womanhood: Archetypes, Stereotypes, and Prototypes
Professor: Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Meetings: Monday Thursday 11:00am-12:20pm

Course Description:

This course offers a study of global autobiography and fictionalized autobiography by women of the late twentieth-century.  Our objective is to explore the archetypal, stereotypical, and prototypical representation of women’s subjectivity in global contexts of  change throughout the world.  We will focus on how self-representation is not only complicated by certain linguistic and narratological confines, but is also impeded by systems of oppression and human rights violations, such as censorship and captivity, throughout the globe.  We will read works by authors with origins in Jamaica, Nigeria, Dominica, Nicaragua, and the United States among other areas of the world.

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