ITAL 157 - (LT) Contemporary Italian Women’s Fiction

Semester Hours: 3 s.h.

Periodically
Readings of representative works including both short stories and novels. Exploration of recurrent themes such as sisterhood, violence against women, misogyny, female desire, female agency, the language of emotion, subjectivity and the body. We analyze how the bildingsroman, the historical novel and the postmodern novel are impacted (some more, some less) by the gender of the author.