106-104 Women's Writing, Women's Lives

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This subject studies twentieth-century women's fiction, autobiography and poetry. We will explore the connections between changes in women's social position and the new forms of writing they developed both to express and achieve those changes. Particular attention will be paid to women writers' experiments with language, and with traditional genres such as the novel and the autobiography, and to questions of sexual and cultural identity. Students will be introduced to feminist literary theory and will develop a range of reading, writing and research skills, in conjunction with a knowledge of the major trends in twentieth-century women's writing.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Poetry anthology available from the department.

• B Adams and T Tate eds, That Kind of Woman. Virago.
• J Frame, To the Is-Land. Paladin.
• J Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Vintage.
• D Hewett, Wild Card. McPhee Gribble.
• E Jolley, The Georges' Wife. Penguin.
• R Huggins and J Huggins, Auntie Rita. Aboriginal Studies Press.
• D Modjeska, The Orchard. Macmillan.