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The objective of this course will be to examine and evaluate the recent literary production of Cuban and Cuban-American women writers. While continually contextualizing each group within their respective national, cultural, and literary contexts, we will explore the ways in which they relate to one another and engage in a dialogue between literatures that have traditionally been examined and analyzed as separate entities. In particular, we will focus on the ways in which both groups employ women-centered narratives, and in doing so, emphasize the possibility of re-telling, recovering, or reclaiming history through the telling of women's stories, in effect, plotting women into the history of revolution, exile and diaspora. We will explore themes common to both groups, such as identity, female subjectivity, memory, madness, emigration, sexuality, and survival, while also paying close attention to differences such as the portrayal of Cuban women on the island in Cuban-American narratives versus Cuban women's portrayal of themselves (and vice versa), nostalgic versus "realist" visions of Cuba, and the effects of vastly differing political and social realities on the form and content of both Cuban and Cuban-American women's narratives. Note(s): Class Limited to 12 Students Required Texts: Yanez, Mirta, ed. Cubana. Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women Beacon Press Menendez, Ana, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd Grove Press Garcia, Cristina The Aguero Sisters Knopf Obejas, Achy Memory Mambo Cleis Press Berg, Mary, ed. Open Your Eyes and Soar White Pine Press Instructor(s): Jessica Powell Time(s): Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00-11:30 am Place(s): Bldg. 494, Rm. 143 << Back |
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