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Women in Literature II: Prose

Session 6 - Sunday 9:45-11:15am
Henry Hall 227
Presiding Officer: 
Renee Ruderman
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Lorely French
  1. Found in Translation: Henriette Schubart and the Gendered Art of Translation. Lorely French, Pacific University

    Using Bonnie Smith’s study The Gender of History, I investigate translating practices as both amateur and gendered, concentrating on the German translator Henriette Schubart, whose correspondence and works demonstrate a gendered environment that fostered productivity yet also caused chastisement and poverty.

  2. Little Gold Piece: Fetish Value in Gayl Jones' Corregidora. Alia Pan, University of California, Berkeley

    This paper argues that in Corregidora, the plantation assigns value and privilege to the fertile female body and demonstrates how the subject’s passionate attachment to her status as sexual fetish causes her to participate in the maintenance of her commodity fetish value.

  3. Jane Austen: Legend, Legacy, and Dispelling the Myths. Pauline Beard, Pacific University

    Why has this “chic lit” writer lasted so long? Dispelling myths about Austen, I explore her portrayal of English life, and her legacy in novel writing: comedy of manners, social satire, and the use of editorship using the controversy Kathryn Sutherland has spurred concerning Jane’s spelling and punctuation.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed