American Women Writers

CANCELLED

Summer 2013 quarter

Faculty

Virginia Darney

Fields of Study

gender and women's studies and literature

Preparatory for studies or careers in

Writing, teaching, humanities, social sciences

Description

When a woman comes to write a novel, she will find that she is permanently wishing to alter their established values—to make serious what apears to be insignificant to a man, and trivial what appears to him unimportant--Virginia Woolf

What sorts of issues are important to American women writers?  What sorts of issues are absent there?  What differences do race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation make to the issues they present?  Are women's writings different from men's?  We will read novels and short stories by American women from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries to begin to answer these questions.  We will read Morrison , Paradise ; Robinson, Housekeeping; and short stories selected from Cather, Welty, Plath, Paley, Jhabvala, O'connor, Gilchrist, Tan, and others.

Advertised Schedule

1-3p Tue, 10a-noon and 2-5p Wed/Thu, 10a-noon and 2-4p Fri (Jul. 30-Aug. 30)

Location

Olympia

Online Learning

Enhanced Online Learning

Books

Greener Store

Offered During

Day

Program Revisions