EN270: Transnational Feminism, 2011/12 Sorcha Gunne Office: H540 Office Hour: Tuesday, 11am

1)The Landscape is Changing 2)How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Bojan 3)How do you solve a problem like Maria? 4)Desperately Seeking Sonja

HOBART

“[T]he art of bringing to full personal consciousness and articulating a sense of place is arduous, and for new world settler cultures especially so, given the relative shortness of their history in place”. “These cultures face an uphill battle of jump-starting the invention of place-sense by superimposing imported traditions and jerry-building new ones” (257). Lawrence Buell: The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

‘My mother is lace. My father is wood. I am not…. My mother is lace. My father is wood. I am the lace tearing in two. I am the wood breaking in half’ (383)