OUR MYSTERY RIDE

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• The Poems, Stories, Myths
• Weve Heard Along the Way
• 12 May 2005

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• Material, emotional, educational, psychological
  needs female creativity
  
• Reception of the woman writer
• Importance of literary/artistic legacies
• Issues of race
• Issues of class
• Issues of the body
• Issues of sexuality

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• Writing the importance of story
• Feminist Criticism, how a course such as this
  became possible
  
• Writing beyond the ending, writing beyond
  patriarchal proscription
  
• Identity, difference, cultural memory
• Rethinking motherhood
• Rethinking sexuality

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• What role does gender play in the production,
  consumption, and interpretation of literary and
  cultural texts?
  

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• To what extent do women comprise a distinct
  literary subculture forged out of what they might
  have in common as women, despite the obvious and
  important differences of race, class, sexuality,
  physical ability, and nationality that
  distinguish and at times divide them from one
  another?

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• Throughout history and around the world, how have
  women negotiated their relationships to language,
  power, their bodies, families, religions, and the
  state when patriarchal proscriptions have so
  often limited their access to literacy and
  sociopolitical agency?

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• When they have achieved voice, how have women
  challenged or subverted the conventions of
  literary representation? What kinds of stories
  have they told, and what sorts of themes, tropes,
  or devices have characterized those stories?

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OUR MYSTERY RIDE

• After a semester of reading and discussing texts
  written by women, how has your understanding of
  the term literature by women changed?