Women's Fictions in German-Speaking Countries (in English)
This course provides an overview of women's cultural productions from the Weimar period to Reunification and explores issues of gender, female authorship, personal and national identity, and the politicization of the private sphere within the German cultural context. Required texts include May Opitz, Showing Our Colors, Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year, Christa Wolf, What Remains, Lukens and Rosenberg, Daughters of Eve, Sue-Ellen Case, ed., The Divided Homeland.3 hrs. lect./disc.