Fiche de cours
Margaret Atwood : the feminist subject and the subversion of identity in The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976)
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Valérie Cossy
Intervenant(s): -
Pas d'horaire défini.
Cours-Séminaire
Semestre de printemps
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais
Public: Oui
Crédits: 0
Objectif
Reading and analysing literary texts within the context of feminist thought and gender studies.
Contenu
This seminar focuses on two novels by Margaret Atwood. The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976) enable us to consider the place and (self-)construction of the female subject in the second half of the twentieth century. The Edible Woman is a novel in part derived from Beauvoir and from the years of the "Women's Lib", raising in its own way the issue of how one "becomes" a woman. Then, through our reading of Lady Oracle, we are invited to inscribe Beauvoir's feminist project within an even more unstable or "postmodern" context, in which "reality" and "the subject" become more difficult to identify through a novelistic process of permanent destabilization.
Evaluation
Essay
Bibliographie
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, London, Virago.
Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle, London, Virago.
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