[litv] Engendering North American Literatures (Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur) - Einzelansicht

This lecture course provides a gendered survey of North American literatures, introducing the ways in which the study of sex/gender and sexuality as social categories have transformed our understandings of culture, history and society. Topics include the social construction of gender, 
the gendered division of labor, production and reproduction, intersections of gender, race, class and ethnicity, 
and the varieties of sexual experience. We will start the course by looking at the Native American/First Nations multiple gender system and trace the history of the making of the binary system of sex/gender in the early Republic. In the 19^th century, we will look at the rise of the novel, paying special attention to the representations of friendship, expressions of love and romance, including both marriage and same-sex relationships. The third cluster will look at 20^th and 21^st century literature, looking at works that spurred the political activism and identity-based movements of the 1960s and 1970s. We will also provide a survey of feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer literature. This course examines several genres and traditions in North American literature, including poetry, drama, sentimental fiction, and the slave narrative.

Course Readings:

There will be a course reader, which you can order through NamLitCult and pick up at our offices.

This class will start on October 27, 2015.

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