Tentative Schedule
| 1. 2/26 | Introd: contemporary North American feminist novels in context |
| 2. 35 | Housekeeping
space: grandfather's house vs. the lake time: history of patriarchy reversed; "mother-daughter" relationships |
| 3. 3/12 | Housekeeping
burning down the house of patriarchy; reconstruction of women's history |
| 4. 3/19 | Beloved: slavery and rememory |
| 3/26 | Beloved: gender & self vs. community |
| 4/2 | Holiday |
| 4/9 | Beloved: Black feminist
criticism and BL
first framework report |
| 4/16 | Disappearing
Moon Cafe (to Chap III)
space: Vancouver Chinatown history: historical event in 1924 +family romance+ history of Chinatown, emasculation of Chinese men |
| 4/23 | Disappearing Moon Cafe
historiographical metafiction,Kunstlerroman & the use of romance 2nd framework report |
| 4/30 | Woman
on the Edge of Time
space: New York time: present and future (2137) another look at patriarchy |
| 5/7 | Woman on the Edge of Time feminist science fiction |
| 5/14 | Woman on the Edge of Time |
| 5/21 | The
Handmaid's Tale
space: Gillead (in Maine) time: 1980-1990 Atwood and Canadian literary nationalism; HT as a national allegory |
| 5/28 | The Handmaid's Tale the use of fairy tale |
| 6/4 | The Handmaid's Tale feminism
and postmodernism
3rd framework report |
| 6/11 | Dawn |
| 6/18 | Dawn and Conclusion |