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WGSS COURSES
WGSS 394.01 (same as ENGL 394.01)
GENDER, FASCISM, AND MODERISM
Professor Sonita Sarker
W - 7:00-10:00
Old Main 009
Syllabus/Reserves
THE COURSE:
1910-1950. Two world wars and the space-time of modernity.
Democracy and Empire. Can they coexist?
Masses and machines, profit and pleasure, poverty and desire.
Capitalism, fascism, feminism, socialism. Is'm to choose or combine?
Cairo, Paris, Calcutta, New York, Buenos Aires, Rome, London:
metropole or black hole.
Old Rhythms, New Beats.
(Don't) tell me what to think, please!
Some of these words seem very close and others very remote. This course moves through the meanings of Modernism---as political turmoil, as artistic revolution, as cultural revival, and industry-invention. What are the residues or metamorphoses of these issues today and in postmodernism? How did wo/men---ideologues, cosmopolitans, laborers---negotiate nations living and emerging, races moving and mingling, status rising and falling? How did they read the promises and threats of producing alone and collectively? How and why did words like indigenous, exotic, native, and universal unite and divide?
This course looks closely at the political theories of Emma Goldman, Antonio Gramsci, and Rosa Luxemburg. It extends the analysis to the artistic/social theories of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, C.L.R. James, and Victoria Ocampo.
"Genres" Novels, letters, manifestos, pamphlets, music, films, speeches.
"Authors" Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Grazia Deledda, Virginia Woolf, Una Marson, Djuna Barnes, Cornelia Sorabji.
"Fields" Feminist emphases in (anti/post)colonial studies, cultural geographies, political theories, race studies.
Familiarity with 200-level gender, cultural production, historical, political, social, and race theories necessary.
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