Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:49:43 -0500
From: "Jesse O. Taylor-Ide" <jtaylori-AT-jhsph.edu>
Subject: Re: A question about women and globalization in Literature


Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco might be a good thing to look at. It deals 
with the role of women through the end of colonialism, and in building 
community as a means of resistance to global corporate power.
Jesse

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From: Hiswimr-AT-aol.com
Date: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:09 am
Subject: A question about women and globalization in Literature

> Dear List:
> 
> I am scheduled to teach a theme-centered introduction-to-
> literature course 
> next semester and would like to center it around the theme of the 
> effects of 
> globalization on women of the world.  Although I have compiled a 
> list of 
> essays dealing with this topic (and there are tons), i have not 
> been able to 
> find any fictional 
> narratives or plays on the issue.  I've talked to various English 
> professors 
> about it, but so far nobody has been able to come up with any 
> novels/short 
> stories/plays that would fit my parametres with the exception of 
> Dirty Pretty 
> Things, which of course is a film.  
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for literary texts (written in or 
> translated 
> into English) featuring women sweatshop laborers/coffee 
> pickers/victims of 
> the global sex 
> trade, etc?  And if you don't, do you know of anybody who might?
> Thanks!
> 
> Iveta
> 
> =================> Iveta Jusova, Ph.D.
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> English Department
> Wittenberg University
> Springfield, OH 45501
> 
> 
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