Anglo-American Feminist Literary Studies

Anglo-American Feminist Literary Studies

Lectures: 0

Seminars: 30

Tutorials: 0

ECTS credit: 3

Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Burcar Lilijana

fostering a critical and an in-depth reading of literary texts as historically specific and socially determined socio-material and semiotic practices, as communication events, as instances of discourse, and as reflections of socio-political systems whereby gender binaries are either upheld or questioned and imploded to be replaced with transformative visions

acquisition and consolidation of the understanding of basic feminist theories on power discourses and power mechanisms through discursive analyses of literary texts

in-depth analyses of feminist-literary theories on subject formation: historical materialism, poststructuralism and postcolonial studies

Fiction:
Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber. London : Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1983. COBISS.SI-ID – 11506274
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. London : Methuen Drama, 2009, cop. 2008. COBISS.SI-ID - 40725858
Churchill, Caryl. Vinegar Tom. London : Methuen, 1985. COBISS.SI-ID – 769800
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Vintage, 2009, cop. 1984. COBISS.SI-ID – 68857954
Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch: old tale in new skins. New York: Joanna Cotler Books; HarperCollins, 1999. COBISS.SI-ID - 38455394
Gilman, C. Perkins. 1973. The Yellow Wallpaper. New York: The Feminist Press. COBISS.SI-ID – 17587554
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. London: Vintage, 2016, cop. 1994. COBISS.SI-ID – 68779618
Walker, Alice. Color Purple. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. COBISS.SI-ID - 48012642
Winterson, Jeannette. Oranges ar not the Only Fruit. New York: GrovePress, 1987. COBISS.SI-ID - 15010361
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. London: Penguin Books, 1998. COBISS.SI-ID – 46209634
Izbrana dela iz /selected items from Gubar, S. in Gilbert, M. 2007. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. 3rd edn. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

theoretical works
Izbrana dela iz/selected items from:
Humm, Maggie, ed. 1995. Practicing Feminist Criticism: An Introduction. London: Prentice Hall/HarvesterWheatsheaf.
De Lauretis, Teresa. 1987. Technologies of gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction . Houndmills, Baingstoke in London: Macmillian.
Eagleton, Mary. 1996. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Oxford in Cambridge: Blackwell. COBISS.SI-ID - 2545506
Warhol, Robyn in Herndl, Diane Price. 1997. Feminism: an anthology of literary theory and criticism. MacMillian Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 5812791
Woolf, Virginia. 1992. A Room of one’s Own. Oxford : Oxford University Press. COBISS.SI-ID – 3202