I have some (very vague) ideas about what I want to teach and what I don't want to teach also.
Kind of essentially, I don't want to teach most of the books I taught in Woman's Lit last spring, which ended up being these:
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
- Joanna Russ, A Female Man
- Kameron Hurley, God's War
- bell hooks, bone black
- Janet Mitchell, Creepy Girl and Other Stories
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Michelle Tea, Rent Girl
- Charlotte Gilman, Herland
- Our Bodies, Ourselves
Also, obviously, I want this one to be a great deal less Western / American, and a great deal more multi-cultural.
Maybe less 20th/21st century too.
Anyway! I have a few ideas of my own, but I'd love a wider range.
Anyone having brilliant suggestions, drop them in comments, please!
3 comments:
I'd start with The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.
Anna, a guest poster at Echidne of the Snakes, created a series of 15 posts on the women's literary canon and 9 posts on a feminist literary canon. The final posts of each series contains links to earlier posts, so I'll just mention the final posts here.
http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2012/01/guest-post-by-anna-literary-canon-of_15.html
http://www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-guest-post-by-anna-feminist-literary_28.html
No idea who has been translated, but here are some Latin American names: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Elena Poniatowska, Nancy Morejon, Diamela Eltiti, Cristina Peri Rossi, Carmen Boullosa, Juana Gorritti, Cristina Rivera Garza...Hope it helps
Thanks, y'all!
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