G538 - Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: Exploring Alice Munro 2: "Save the Reaper" and "The Children Stay" in The Love of a Good Woman (winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize)

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	11 Sep 2010	10:00 AM	12:30 PM

Literature-lovers.

- Sharing intimacy and love. Old age and alienation. Horror and fear. Motherhood. The mother-daughter relationship. The narrative of divorce. The bond with one's children.
- Munro's reappropiation of myths. The southern Ontario Gothic.

The short story is available at ESSARP Centre on enrolment.

- Armstrong, N. (1991) "Mujeres modernas" en Deseo y ficción doméstica Ediciones Cátedra: Universidad de Valencia.
- Braidotti, R. (2000) "Hacia una nueva representación del sujeto” y “La diferencia sexual como proyecto político nómade", en Sujetos nómades, Buenos Aires, Paidós.
- Braidotti, R. (2002) Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Chapters 3- epilogue. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Braidotti, R. (2006) Transposiciones. Sobre la ética nómada. Gedisa: Barcelona.
- Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa" in Walder, D. (ed.) (1990) Literature in the Modern World. Oxford University Press: New York.
- Cixous, H. "Sorties" in Lodge, D. (ed.) (1988) Modern Criticism and Theory. A Reader. New York: Longman.
- Domínguez, N. (2007) De donde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escritura en la cultura argentina. Beatriz Viterbo editora: Rosario.
- Freud, S. (1919) "The ‘Uncanny’" in Sage, V., The Gothic Novel Macmillan: London, 1990.
- Molloy, S. (2006) "Identidades textuales femeninas: estrategias de autofiguración", Mora N. 12, Buenos Aires: IIEGE/FFyL-UBA, diciembre.

- Group discussion. - Textual analysis: characterization, themes, plot, point of view, writer's techniques. - Applying feminist theory to enrich the reading of the text.