123046 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature (2020W)

- study and discussion of images and discourses of the mother and mothering in theories of the anthropocene: earth mother, mothering and human or non-human reproduction, mother and father figures, mother and child figures, feminist images and uses of the mother, gender politics and the mother, strategic uses of the mother figure, mothering and parenting, mother and body, mother and materiality
- methods from cultural studies, gender studies, anthropocene studies, narratology, genre studies, image studies and studies of literary figuration
- note: this course concerns theoretical texts mainly but there will be some reading of graphic narratives and short short fiction or novels