CWL 151

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Cross-Cultural Thematics

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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores a combination of western and non-western literature through the focus on a shared theme, exploring differences in treatment both within and among different cultures. Several thematic focuses are offered in rotation, including concepts of love and death, environmental justice, catastrophe, gender, and others. All the themes introduce students to a wide array of famous texts from different cultures and also offer some varied perspectives for their own inevitable thoughts on these major topics.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Students may register in more than one section per term.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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CWL 151 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51281	Lecture	MC	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	1112 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Casey, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Monstrous Motherhood Section Info: "CWL 151: Monstrous Motherhood in Western Literature, Film, and Culture" Women’s reproductive capacity has been the subject of both awe and scrutiny, used to various aims in literature and film. This course engages with social conceptions of motherhood and its capacity to provoke horror, from the ancient world to today. From Greek tragic depictions of mothers who transgress normative parent-child relationships through murder and marriage, to romanticist allegories of the mother as nation, to the contemporary policing of women’s bodies in the post-Roe era, this course explores motherhood’s creative and destructive power in literature, film, and culture. Analyzing ancient texts including the Greek tragedies Medea and Oedipus Rex as well as Aztec mythology, horror films including Alien and Rosemary’s Baby, and contemporary texts including Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, paired alongside the critical theory of Julia Kristeva, Maria Lugones, Hortense Spillers, and others, this course offers a nuanced reading of the maternal body and what it has represented for various authors, filmmakers, and theorists across the Western world, with a particular eye toward the intersections of gender, race, and the national imaginary.