POESÍA Y GÉNERO: CONSTRUCCIONES DE LA IDENTIDAD FEMENINA EN LA LITERATURA CONTEMPORÁNEA

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CONTENIDOS DE LA ASIGNATURA

UNIT 1: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY: INTRODUCTION TO GENDER THEORIES IN RELATION TO CULTURAL STUDIES AND LITERARY CRITICISM.

1.1. Identity and subjectivity in Gender theory.

1.2. Feminist literary criticism.

1.3. Gender and other identitary parameters in Cultural studies.

UNIT 2: GENDER AND POETIC CREATIVITY: IDENTITARY REPRESENTATIONS AND REINVENTIONS UNTIL WORLD-WAR II.

2.1. Gender and poetic creativity.

2.2. British and U.S women’s poetry: the nineteenth-century, modernism and the interwar period.

UNIT 3: APPROACHES TO DIFFERENCE AND EXPERIMENTATION: COLLECTIVITY AND HETEROGENEITY DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

3.1. Feminist consciousness and poetic revolution. Ethnicity and sexuality.

3.2. Experience and experimentation in women’s poetry in English.

UNIT 4: POETIC GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MULTIPLE SELF: DISPLACEMENT, CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ALTERITY IN CURRENT WOMEN’S POETRY IN ENGLISH.

4.1. Subversive subjectivities, theoreticians of identity and diasporic consciousness: “Women’s Border Poetics.”

4.2. The contemporary landscape: individual and multiperspectival voices.