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Virginia Woolf And Her World, Václav Paris Apr 2021

Virginia Woolf And Her World, Václav Paris

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The Inappropriate/D Fantastic: A Proposal Beyond Feminism, Teresa López-Pellisa Mar 2021

The Inappropriate/D Fantastic: A Proposal Beyond Feminism, Teresa López-Pellisa

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Teresa López-Pellisa’s article “The Inappropriate/d Fantastic: A Proposal Beyond Feminism” discusses a type of narration that goes beyond the feminist fantastic. These are fantastic texts permeated not only by a feminist discourse, but by intersectionality, transfeminism, ecofeminism, cyberfeminism, post-humanism, xenofeminism and/or necropolitics as well. Borrowing the term inappropriate/d others from Donna Haraway (The Promises of Monsters), who in turn takes it from the feminist theorist Trinh Minh-ha, we can analyze those fantastic stories that call into question the categories of gender, class, race and sexuality established by Western enlightened humanism. These types of non-mimetic narrations have …


Teaching Premodern Women And Gender, Lucy C. Barnhouse Jan 2021

Teaching Premodern Women And Gender, Lucy C. Barnhouse

Quidditas

In her influential History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, Judith Bennett asked “Who’s afraid of the distant past?” Fifteen years after this book’s publication, the question remains relevant. Teaching the history of women and gender in the premodern world presents linked pedagogical challenges. Most students enter college with little to no background in premodern history. Many find premodern primary sources, when taught with the same pedagogical scaffolding as modern sources, inaccessible due to real or perceived strangeness. These challenges can be compounded by the challenges of teaching women’s and/or gender history. This roundtable addresses strategies for productive …


On First-Person Narration In The Disguise Of Shōjo ——An Analysis Of Dazai Osamu’S “Joseito” And Kon Satoshi’S Perfect Blue, Yimeng Sun Jan 2021

On First-Person Narration In The Disguise Of Shōjo ——An Analysis Of Dazai Osamu’S “Joseito” And Kon Satoshi’S Perfect Blue, Yimeng Sun

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.