ENG 253: Women's Literature

Journal of Modern Literature. Summer 2009, Vol. 32 Issue 4, pg 82-104
Through the techniques of role reversals, character development and dramatic irony, Mena's stories portray the U.S. beauty industry as a dynamic trade that exports new forms of whiteness across its southern border.

ATQ. Jun 2002, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p101
Examines the tension between perceived high and low cultural production and women's place in that divide as discussed by Catharine Sedgwick in the short story 'Cacoethes Scribendi.'

Asian American Literature Discourse & Pedagogies; 2015, Vol. 6, p10-28
A literary criticism of the short story "Its Wavering Image" from Sui Sin Far's short story collection "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" is presented citing reference to Pan, main character of the story, and contentious position of the Chinese in the U.S.

Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne. 2024, Issue 14, pg 19-31
This essay situates Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story A White Heron within the related contexts of children’s literature, the fairy tale, and crit ical ecofeminism, featuring comparative analysis of Jewett’s story and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves. Both stories are at least partly re-imaginings of Little Red Riding Hood, and both stories pursue what I identify as comparable ecofeminist or proto-ecofeminist agendas.

Black Scholar. Spring 1998, Vol. 28 Issue 1, pg 23-26
A brief overview of the depiction and representation of black female characters in the works of some of the most popular black writers of detective fiction

Atlantis, Jun 2021, Vol. 24, No. 1, pg. 225-243
In 1916, Edith Wharton and Susan Glaspell coincided in each telling the story of a different fictional murderess. Although both works are written within different genres, there are striking similarities between the situations of these women who murdered their husbands. Even more arresting is the choice of the plot device of judicial examination of the facts to give textual representation to the reality of these women's experience. Both writers explore the relation between official, legal narratives and suppressed, illegitimate stories, in which male and female versions conflict to such an extent, that the ascendancy of one over the other determines the fate of the women on trial.

American and British Studies Annual. 2023, Vol. 16, pg 93-110.
The aim of this paper is thus to examine the manner in which the main character Delia as well as her abusive husband Sykes are associated with nature, including animals, in order to critically assess the abuse Delia is subjected to. Particular attention is then devoted to three main parts of the story: Delia’s connection to her pony, the village men’s conversations and their subsequent comparison of Delia to sugar cane as well as Hurston’s reenactment of the fall from the Garden of Eden.