From: "Jillana Enteen" <jillana-AT-rcn.com>
Subject: RE: A question about women and globalization in Literature
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:30:34 -0500


Mehta's Karma Kola and
Hagedorn's Dogeaters
are the two novels I teach in my class on globalization Both are well
written, smart, funny and they certainly take on women/gender issues.

Jillana Enteen
Visiting Assistant Professor
English, Gender Studies and
Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University
215 University Hall
Evanston, IL 60208-2240
jillana-AT-jillana.net
j-enteen-AT-northwestern.edu
http://jillana.net



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> [mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Jesse
> O. Taylor-Ide
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>
> 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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