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Rooms of their Own: Writing Women in Great Britain and America
We will look at a variety of writings by women from the 19th century into the 21st century, focussing on different ethnicities and different media
What cultural and political issues do women writers address? What voices, what images do they find to tell their stories? What common concerns and what shifts in aesthetic self-expression can we discover?
Starting with Virginia Woolf’s "A Room of One’s Own” we will look at feminist manifestos as well as the tradition of women’s writing she proposes.
We will also look at more contemporary women who "rewrite” this literary canon, by bringing the perspective of ethnicity into play. Finally, we will look at women who have excelled in the medium of film and video clips.
Ziele
- Discussing the current interest in women’s writing, including women of various ethnicities, in the context of a historical development
- Producing a toolbox for teaching this subject
- Discovering new teaching materials
- Exploring the cross section between literary and visual texts
Inhalte
- Historical overview and background information on the tradition of women and writing
- Reading and analysis of literary and visual texts
- Critical analysis of the material used, regarding its use in the classroom
Arbeitsweise / Werkzeuge
- Theoretical input from the instructor
- Plenary discussion
- Groupwork
- Reading of film sequences
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