ENGL 320 - Contemporary Amer Ethnic Woman Her Story

3 Hour(s)

The last three decades of the twentieth century were instrumental to the emergence of ethnic women’s voices in contemporary American fiction. As a result of Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation Movements, their books were published, creating a new readership and awareness that challenged mainstream understanding of American literature and introduced new forms of storytelling. We will study a selection of American women writers whose stories engage contested ideas of identity, gender, race and ethnicity and represent various ethnic histories. Their writing styles will range from realistic to postmodernist, draw on ethnic traditions of storytelling, and experiment with narrative forms such as an epistolary novel, slave narrative, memoir, detective story, and bildungsroman among others.

General Education Requirements: Gender Inquiry; Writing Intensive