Document Type
Syllabus
Publication Date
Fall 9-1-2024
Course Description
This interdisciplinary course explores how American women narrate and represent their lives across media, including literature, film, and fine art. We will pay particular attention to women’s autobiographical practices that employ both image and text to address the complexities of self- representation and the intersectionality of culture, memory, fiction, and history within these practices. Course themes include: definitions of national belonging; intertextuality and the construction of self; transformation and conversion narratives as social/political critique; and loss of innocence as a counter-hegemonic feminist strategy. The texts this course examines include works by Adrian Piper, Lorie Novak, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Carmen Lomas Garza, and Drew Riley, to name a few.
Recommended Citation
Wimbley, Karin, "ENG 264B U.S. Women’s Autobiography Wimbley Fall 2024" (2024). All Course Syllabi. 668, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/records_syllabi/668
Student Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1. Read and understand texts from a variety of literary and visual culture genres, time periods, cultures, and/or regions. 2. Understand and use basic literary and theoretical critical terms. 3. Articulate their own ideas about literature and visual culture, both verbally and in writing. 4. Understand and describe the shared characteristics of literature and visual culture produced within a specific category (e.g., time period, nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, culture, language group, genre, etc.).