WOMEN IN LITERATURE
SYLLABUS FALL 1994
KARIN HERRMANN
University of Arkansas
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Kimpel Hall 503
(501) 575-5938
kherrman@comp.uark.edu


        Purpose of course:

        This course aims to explore contemporary novels written by and
about women from a multi-cultural perspective. Special attention will be
paid to questions of ethnic identity, class and gender relations.


        Readings:

1. Pamela Jekel.  Columbia.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
2. Louise Erdrich. Tracks.  New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
3. Toni Morrison.  Beloved.  New York: Knopf, 1987.
4. Christa Wolf.  Kassandra. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.
5. Margaret Atwood.  Surfacing.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
6. Keri Hulme. The Bone People. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press,
1985.
7. Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior. New York: Knopf, 1977.
8. Hanan al-Shaykh.  Women of Sand and Myrrh. Doubleday: New York, 1989.
9. Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1985.
10. Julia Alvarez. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. Chapel Hill,
N.C.: Alonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.

We are on a semester basis and we'll meet once a week for three hours, so I
plan to read one book a week with one week for introductions and one week
open. The requirements are: 1 mid-term, one 10 page paper, one class
project where two or three students will introduce the chosen novelist
and will serve as "discussion partners" for that class period.