“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”– Bell Hooks

SPRING 2019 – WOMEN IN LITERATURE
3383-0001

MWF 10:10-11:00AM BRYAN HALL 0303
taught by Ösel Jessica Plante

Course theme—Trauma Narratives

In this course, we will read and analyze the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. We will also discuss what it means to heal from trauma, and what redemption or justice means in the lives of the characters we read, as well as in our own.

 Author List: Arundhati Roy, Elissa Washuta, Margurite Duras, Bell Hooks, Marie Howe, Toni Morrison, Cheryl Strayed

Student assignments will include: One term paper, three short reaction papers, and one presentation