67245 - LETTERATURA INGLESE / LETTERATURA DEI PAESI DI LINGUA INGLESE 2 (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Lo studente possiede conoscenze approfondite sulla storia della letteratura inglese moderna e sullo sviluppo delle letterature extraeuropee in lingua inglese, con particolare attenzione al rapporto tra i testi letterari e il contesto storico, artistico e linguistico. Possiede elevate capacità di comprensione e di analisi critica delle specificità culturali delle aree geografiche studiate, nonché delle dinamiche politiche e dei condizionamenti ideologici tra i diversi Paesi, con particolare attenzione ai rapporti tra l'Europa e le sue ex-colonie. Conosce e sa utilizzare le metodologie pratiche per l’analisi e l'interpretazione del testo letterario. E' in grado di elaborare analisi complesse e di formulare riflessioni autonome su tematiche di ricerca specifiche.

Contenuti

Overview of the course:

The course intends:

· To enable the analysis of the representations and constructions of gender, 'race', and ‘diversity’ in varied forms of text (theoretical, literary, visual)

· To approach women's and gender studies as a critical field in its intersection with global and postcolonial studies.

· To re-consider women's and gender studies as an interdisciplinary area and as a methodology of deconstruction of ‘dominant' systems of knowledge. To re-think women's and gender studies (within a postcolonial and global studies frame) as analysis of distribution of knowledge, politics of representation and interpretation.

· To enable students to gain critical tools to reflect upon diverse cultural debates, to elaborate on the interconnections between texts and contexts, to favour critical thinking

· To offer critical instruments enabling competence in terms of ‘diversity management’

· To facilitate students to analyse issues related to critical theories and methodologies of gender and women's studies; main issues in Feminist theories and Queer studies. re-reading of the notion of identity/difference; re-visions of the symbolic and social order, critical debates on the representation and deconstruction of the intersectionality of gender and ‘race'.

‘Case studies': analysis of diverse kinds of texts (literary, theoretical, visual) on main themes in women's and gender studies, with specific reference to the interconnection of gender, ethnicity and ‘race' in trauma studies and post-conflict contexts.

Part 1. “Mapping the crisis”: from vulnerability and precarity to solidarity 

The course will analyse critical theories and methodologies of gender, feminist and postcolonial studies in dialogue with works of such scholars as Luce Irigaray, Rosi Braidotti, Hortense Spillers, Gayatri C. Spivak, Judith Butler, Achille Mbembe. The course will analyse strategies of representations of self and otherness, power relations in totalitarian regimes, the relationship between human and non-human in texts (literary and visual) in English while addressing issues related to the exploitation of all beings and the planet. Lessons will be carried out through gender and postcolonial methodologies. The texts chosen articulate the relationship between identity and otherness as an ambiguous and controversial one and as a projection of the Western imaginary and metaphysics. A close reading of the novels discusses the construction and stabilization of a rhetoric of violence based on a normative notion of identity and otherness, and between human-non human relation.

Testi/Bibliografia

Testi/Bibliografia

IN PROGRESS

Primary sources

Burdekin, Katharine, Swastiska Night, 1937

Butler, Octavia E. Kindred,1979

Faber, Michel, Under the Skin, 2000

Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace, 1999 

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

Movies and tv series (in progress):

The Village, Director M. Night Shyamalan, 2004

The Handmaid's Tale, adaptations, starting from the TV series, season 1

Under the Skin, Director Jonathan Glazer, Great Britain, 2013

The Secret Life of Words, Director Isabel Coixet, Ireland and Spain, 2005

Bibliography of critical/theoretical texts (essays, articles, volumes). Lessons will make reference to the following critical sources:

Braidotti, Rosi, The Posthuman, Polity Press, 2013

Butler, Judith, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2015

Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) Dark Horizons. Science Fiction and The Dystopian Imagination.London and New York: Routledge, 2003. (selected chapters) (available in the Library)

Baccolini, Raffaella “Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler.” Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 13-34.

Braidotti, Rosi “Difference, Diversity, and Nomadic Subjectivity” online document, http://women.ped.kun.nl, 2000.

Butler, Judith, 1993, Bodies that Matter. On the Discoursive Limits of “Sex”.New York and London: Routledge, 1996, Corpi che Contano. I limiti discorsivi del “sesso”Trad. S. Capelli. Milano: Feltrinelli. (selected chapters and Italian Introduction by A. Cavarero) (available in the Library)

Gilroy, Paul, "Urban Social Movements, 'Race' and Community" in P. Williams and L. Chrisman, eds, Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory.A Reader, New York: Columbia UP, 1994, pp. 404-420

Irigaray, Luce, “Donne Divine" in Sessi e Genealogie, 1989. Trad. L. Muraro. Milano: La Tartaruga. Sexes et parentés Paris: Minuit, 1987, Divine Women, Occasional Paper, Sydney, 1986, trans. S. Muecke reperibile nel reader. “Donne divine”, in AA. VV, Melusina. Mito e leggenda di una donna serpente. Roma, Utopia, 1986, pp. 134-150

Irigaray, Luce, 1980, "When our Lips Speak Together" (L. Irigaray; C. Burke) in Signs, vol 6, n. 1, 1980, 69-79, Chicago UP. online http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2006/spring/imperialbedroom/luceirigaryLIPS.pdf https://www.didaweb.net/risorse/visita.php?url=http://www.women.it/les/testi/labbra.htm (available in French, Italian, Spanish ect.)

Monticelli R., The Politics of the Body in Women's Literatures, Bologna, I Libri di Emil - Odoya, 2012, pp. 176.

Monticelli R., 'Seeking light in darkness and harmony in confusion': Death, Memory and Resistance in Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin and Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, «DEDALUS», 2008, 11-12; 2006-2008, pp. 53 – 66 

Mediazioni online, Special issue on The Village (available online) www.mediazionionline.it

Rivisiting Feminism: Cultural trajectoriesed. Kalpana Das and Fréderique Apffel Marglin. iim, InterCulture, Intercultural Institute of Montreal, n. 150. INTERCULTURE. vol. 150. anno 2, n. 6. Edizione italiana della rivista canadese dell'Intercultural Institute of Montreal. (selected essays, GEMMA students only), (available in the Library)

Sargent, Lyman Tower, The Problem of the « Flawed Utopia »: a Note on the Costs of Eutopia » in Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) Dark Horizon. Science Fiction and The Dystopian Imagination.London and New York: Routledge, 2003 (available in the Library)

Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”, in Diacritics. A Review of ContemporaryCriticism17 (2), 1987, pp. 65-81. “Figli/e di madre, del padre forse: una grammatica Americana” in Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie. A cura di Raffaella Baccolini; M. Giulia Fabi, Vita Fortunati, Rita Monticelli. Bologna: CLUEB, 1997, pp. 255-279, trad. Lucia Gunella e Rita Monticelli. (available in the Library)

Spivak, Gayatri C, 1985, “Can the Subaltern Speak? Speculations on Widow-Sacrifice.” Wedge (Winter-Spring 1985), 7-8:120-130. Issue entitled "The Imperialism of Representation/The Representation of Imperialism. (available online)

Spivak, Gayatri C, 1985, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism", Critical Inquiry, 12-1. Issue entitled: "Race", Writing and Difference.

Monticelli, Rita, "Science Fiction as posthuman cultural ecology", in Between, IX.17 (2019), online http://www.Between-journal.it/

Herron, Tom, "THe Dog Man: Becoming animal in Coetzee's Disgrace" (Available on JSTOR and on Virtuale)

Cooper, Pamela, "Matamorphosis and Sexuality: Reading the Strange Passion of Disgrace" (Available online and on Virtuale)

Graham, Lucy Valerie, Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace", (Available on JSTOR and on Virtuale)

BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS: Please do check this web page for further notice, information and online availability. Students will be provided with alternative sources available online or in our library. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Students can choose texts (essays and article) BOTH from this reading list AND from the ones available on VIRTUALE

 

Metodi didattici

Important Notice:

Lessons will take place partly in remote and partly in presence. Please do check this page for further notice and updated news

Lessons, seminars, discussion in class, students' presentations. Languages: English AND Italian

Bibliography and other information will be provided also during the lessons (and then published in the online reading list and program). The course includes both lessons and seminars with the active participation of the students. Students who cannot attend lessons must contact the lecturer during her office hours, or via e-mail before the end of the course. Students are requested to check the online program also during the course for further notice and information.

B.A students are not admitted. Erasmus students are requested to contact the lecturer before enrolling in the course.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Gli studenti e le studentesse di Letteratura Inglese/Letteratura dei Paesi di lingua inglese 2 LM dovranno analizzare 3 testi primari (da scegliersi tra quelli in elenco) e il film the Village; saggi/ capitoli di volumi/articoli da scegliere tra le fonti critiche in elenco per un numero di 200/220 pagine (non da un unico volume). E' inoltre richiesta l'analisi di un altro film in programma oppure una tra le serie TV proposte. 

Students of the course Letteratura Inglese/Letteratura dei paesi di lingua inglese 2 LM are requested to analyse 3 texts (to be chosen amongst the volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and the film The Village; and articles/essays/chapters (about 200/220 pages, not from a single volume) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the other movies proposed or one TV series proposed.

Le studentesse e gli studenti di Feminist Theory between Difference and Diversity dovranno analizzare 3 testi primari (da scegliersi tra quelli in elenco) e il film The Village; e saggi/ capitoli di volumi/articoli da scegliere tra le fonti critiche in elenco per un numero di 250 pagine (non da un unico volume). Di queste, 50 possono essere tratte dal seminario di teorie. E' inoltre richiesto lo studio di un altro film in programma oppure di una serie TV. E' inoltre obbligatorio il seminario integrativo. 

Students of Feminist Theory between Difference and Diversity are requested to analyse 3 primary texts (to be chosen amongst the volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and the film The Village; and articles/essays/chapters (about 250 pages, not from a single volume; students can also choose 50 pages among the essays proposed in the seminar on theories) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the other movies proposed or one TV series. Students must also attend the compulsory seminar on gender/female theories.  

Le studentesse e gli studenti di Gender Studies/Studi di genere dovranno analizzare 3 testi primari (da scegliersi tra quelli in elenco) e il film The Village; e saggi/ capitoli di volumi/articoli da scegliere tra le fonti critiche in elenco per un numero di 150 pagine (non da un unico volume). E' inoltre richiesto lo studio di un altro dei film proposti e/o di una serie TV.

Students of Gender Studies/Studi di genere are requested to analyse 3 primary texts (to be chosen amongst the volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and the film The Village; and articles/essays/chapters (about 150 pages, not from a single volume) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the other movies and/or one of the TV series proposed.

 

Please do check this web page for further notice and information

Active participation in class discussions: 30%. By participation in class we mean the ability of the student to enter the debates, contributing with questions and/or elaborations of the topics proposed by the lecturer. This participation does not aim at testing students' specific preparation in the field, rather, they want to favour their ability to take part in discussions and their capability to discuss in group.

 

Final oral exam: 70%

The final oral exam will test the student's critical capability, his/her knowledge of the methodologies employed, her/his ability to combine theories with the analyses of the case studies chosen. The close reading of the texts aims at showing the student's critical ability, their knowledge not only of the texts but also of their context of creation together with the cultural politics that inform them. Students are requested to use an appropriate language, to be able to articulate their thought in English and Italian (high level) and to have an accurate knowledge of the bibliography chosen for the exam.

Grades:

Excellent: Students' high capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, originality of thought and excellent knowledge of the theories and of the texts chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, accurate and appropriate language.

Very good level: Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, originality of thought and very good knowledge of the theories and of the texts chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate, accurate language.

Good level: Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, knowledge of the theories and of the texts chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate language.

Pass: Students' capability to enter the exiting debates on the topics chosen, knowledge of the theories and of the texts chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate language.

Fail: Student's lack of knowledge of the theories employed during the course, incapability to critical reading of the novels, inappropriate and inaccurate language.

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Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Power point, slides, movies, visual texts.

The course includes a: 

 SEMINAR ON

FEMINIST GENEALOGIES (connected to the course Feminist Theories Between Difference and Diversity, Prof. Monticelli, 2020-21)

A.Y. 2020-21

The seminar “Feminist Genealogies” includes references to original texts from the second, the third and fourth wave feminisms. The seminar explores the scientific relevance of feminist texts in the history of culture, literary studies, and it introduces students to new forms of languages and genres employed by feminist scholars in order to re-think, re-write and contest categories of Western thought and Classical Humanism.

Main topics: feminist genealogies; the politics of location; the body in feminist theory; the category of gender; difference and intersectionality; the personal is political; queer theory.

The seminar is compulsory for GEMMA first-year students as part of the program Feminist Theory: Between Difference and Diversity.

For students of Letteratura inglese/Letteratura dei paesi di lingua inglese, Studi di genere (Gender studies), and Erasmus students the seminar is NOT compulsory, but all students are welcome.

Students are invited to be active participants in class.

The seminar will make references to the following texts:

Preliminary Readings

- Raffaella Baccolini, Vita Fortunati, M. Giulia Fabi, Rita Monticelli, Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, (a cura di) Bologna, Clueb, 1997 (in Italian – available at the Department Library).

- Raffaella Baccolini, “Gender (still) Matters: A Genealogy of Feminist Subjectivities”, in, Women's Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, 2019, pp. 26 – 40 (in English – available at the Department Library).

- Rita Monticelli, “ 'I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess': Genealogies, Re-Visions of the Body, and Feminist Figurations”, in, Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019, pp. 41 – 56 (in English – available at the Department Library).

15^th October

The Category of Gender

- Gayle Rubin (1975), “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex”, in Rayna R. Reiter (ed.), Toward an Anthropology of Women, Monthly Review Press, New York London, pp. 157 – 210.

22^nd October

The Personal is Political

- Audre Lorde, Zami. A New Spelling of My Name, Persephone Press, Watertown, MA, 1982.

- Alina Marazzi, We want roses too, Italy/Swiss, 1' 25'', documentary, 2007 (short clip).

29^th October – reading week

5^th November

Differences and Intersectionality

- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”, in,Feminist Review 1988, 30: 49–74.

- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color”, in Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo (eds.), The Feminist Philosophy Reader, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008.

12^th November

The Body in Feminist Theory

- Adrienne Rich (1984), “Notes toward a Politics of Location”, in Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Selected Prose (1979-1985), W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1994.

19^th November

Gender/Queer

- Jennie Livingston, Paris is Burning, USA, 1' 11'', Documentary (short clip).

- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge, New York-London, 1990 (first chapter).

Conclusions and discussions

All seminars will be in remote on TEAMS Thursdays (10:45-11:45)

Lecturer: Dr. Cristina Gamberi

For info, please contact Dr. Cristina Gamberi, email: cristina.gamberi2@unibo.it

 

 

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Rita Monticelli