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EAST ASIAN STUDIES (L03)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2017
L03 East Asia 482Reading Seminar in Gender and Chinese Literature: Writing Women of Imperial China3.0 Units
Description:Although women of premodern China have often been portrayed as little more than long-suffering victims of male patriarchy and sexual repression, their lives were far more complicated, diverse, and interesting. Women played roles as filial daughters, dutiful wives, and devoted mothers, but also as proud courtesans, clever entrepreneurs, educated scholars and teachers, independent nuns, fierce warriors and even powerful rulers. In this course we will begin with a broad overview of the ideal traditional roles for women established in early China. We will then move on to a general exploration of some of the ways women were represented in classical literature by male writers. Our main focus, however, will be on how, over time, more and more women took up the brush and began to write themselves. In so doing they were able to express their own subjectivity and often radically reinscribe many of the notions of femininity and of female roles that were dominant during their times. We will conclude with a discussion of ways in which traditional women writers both anticipated and contributed to the 20th century transition to modernity. Most of our class discussion will be based on primary sources in English translation, supplemented by occasional secondary critical scholarly articles where relevant. Prerequisite: Some background in premodern Chinese literature history or culture would be helpful but is not required.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L04 482  L77 482  L97 482Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
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