First-Year Seminars 110UW - Americ.Women's Fict. 1900-Now

In this course, we will analyze fiction by women;writers located in the United States from 1900 to;the present. We will focus on themes of gender,;race, and sexuality, and explore experiments in;form as well as content. Writers may include;Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin,;Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Egan, Zora;Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Carson McCullers,;Gertrude Stein, Monique Truong, and Edith;Wharton.

First-year students only, by placement.