English 250: Introduction to Literature by Women



English 250: Introduction to Literature by Women


Spring 2005, FSK 0106, T/Th 2:00-2:50pm

Professor Martha Nell Smith, mnsmith [at] umd [dot] edu
Office: MITH, McKeldin B0131; SQH 2111
Telephone: 301.405.8878
Office Hours: by appointment

TAs: Michelle Dokko — Office hours:Tuesdays, 11:00-1:00
Amy Karp — Office hours: Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30

19 May 2005

Today's Topic: Test entry for May 19th

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Today's Topic: FINAL EXAM.

10:30-12:30.
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12 May 2005

Final Power Point

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Today's Topic: Identity, Difference, Resistance, Subversion, Celebration in Global Contexts.

Adrienne Rich, "Transcendental Etude.”

Michelle Cliff (916-928). Trinh T. Minh-ha (928-933). Gloria Anzaldua (315-323). Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran.
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10 May 2005

Today's Topic: Rethinking Motherhood, Sisterhood, Sexuality, Sexual Hierarchies: A Poetics and Politics of Lesbianism.

Adrienne Rich (1094-1112), plus "Twenty-One Love Poems" and “Transcendental Etude.”

Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality"

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5 May 2005

Power Point Presentation: Plath, Atwood, Brooks, Pratt

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Today's Topic: Rethinking Motherhood, Sisterhood, Sexuality, Sexual Hierarchies.

Introduction to “Rethinking the Maternal” (605-620). Sylvia Plath (812-818). Margaret Atwood, “Giving Birth” (826-836). Gwendolyn Brooks (806-812). Minnie Bruce Pratt (851-853).
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3 May 2005

Today's Topic: Questions of Identity, Difference, Cultural Power.

Maya Angelou (1221-1224). Lucille Clifton (818-820). Bessie Head (820-826). June Jordan (1064-1073).
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