ITALIAN 202
Engendered Voices (Texts in Italian)
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for ITALIAN 202.
Description
In the past decades Italian women writers and filmmakers have achieved wide recognition in Italy. Women writers have been the recipients of all the prestigious literary prizes and their works have been translated into various languages. At the same time many Italian writers are excluded from the official canon, and the distribution of films by Italian women filmmakers is poor.
From pre-feminism to post-modernism, from the search for a lost mother to the search for oneself, this course focuses on the representation and invention of women’s experiences, on women’s social and political conditions, and on issues of gender and culture in modern and contemporary Italy.
This course is designed for students advancing in Italian and includes a close reading of several texts in Italian.
Availability 2016
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Daniela Cavallaro
Assessment
Coursework only
Points
ITALIAN 202: 15 points
Prerequisites
ITALIAN 107
Corequisites
ITALIAN 200
Restrictions
ITALIAN 203 or 335
