CULTR ST 709 / Contemporary Women’s Collaborative Writing

3 unit(s)

L. York (cross-listed as English *704)

This course examines collaborative writing by women, particularly the overt co-authorship or co-signature of women’s texts. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to theoretical discussions of authorship and collaborative writing, since one of the main aims of the course will be to assess the implications of this mode of writing for existing theories of authorship. Other relevant questions will include: Are women’s collaborative texts necessarily subversive, or do they harbour various ideological potentials and power relations? How can difference operate in a textual venture that has traditionally been described in terms of cooperation and mutuality?