ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Reading Transgressive Motherhood

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR
New course added 10.23.12

What do mothers owe their families, and what do children owe their mothers? What pleasure and power is there in the maternal? What is a bad mother? How do narratives of race, class, migration, gender, and sexuality structure representations of the maternal in ethnic American literature? In this course, we will consider the aesthetics and politics of motherhood, thinking both about mothers in the proper sense and various metaphors of motherhood. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: H. Suarez
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’