ENG 111 - Be Transformed: Feminist Fairy-Tale Adaptations and the Creative Process (W) (1)

Fairy tales have ignited the imagination of children and sophisticated salon readers, storytellers and political activists, authors and film-makers. Contemporary authors have used their familiar tropes and narratives to open up space for the mysterious and the emancipatory in stories of ordinary drudgery, neglect, injustice, violence. Case in point: the role of fairy-tales in the feminist fiction of Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, English writer Angela Carter, and Nigerian-English author (currently a Czech expat) Helen Oyeyemi, which will be the focus of our discussions and writing in this class. We will dedicate our work to developing a basic vocabulary and guided practice analyzing both contemporary literary adaptations of fairy-tales and scholarship about these adaptations, toning our academic writing muscles by writing in a variety of informal and formal formats, developing writing strategies, and reflecting on writing as a multi-stage and recursive process. Not open to students who have previously completed a First-Year Writing Course.
(First Year Writing Seminar (FYW)) (Humanities)