Research Guides (LibGuides): FYS: Women Writing the World (Carter): Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome to the LibGuide for the First Year Seminar:

Women Writing the World

This guide is meant to help you develop the skills and tools to accomplish the FYS course objectives:

To reflect on significant questions about yourself, your community, and your world.
To develop the capacity to read and think critically.
To develop the capacity to write clear and persuasive expository and argumentative essays with an emphasis on thesis formation and development.
To gain an understanding of basic principles of oral communication as they apply to classroom discussion.
To understand the liberal arts as a vital and evolving tradition and to see yourself as agents within that tradition.
To develop capacities for careful and open reflection on questions of values and norms.
To develop the ability to carry out research for the purpose of inquiry and to support claims.

The library (and your librarian) are here to help you! Use us early and often!

The Politics of the Female Body by Ketu Katrak
ISBN: 9780813539300
Publication Date: 2006-02-15
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance.
Postcolonial Representations by Françoise Lionnet
ISBN: 9781501724541
Publication Date: 2018-07-05
Discussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism.
Stories of Women by Elleke Boehmer
ISBN: 9781847792723
Publication Date: 2013-07-19
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.