This lesson will seek to study the critical narratives of women's literature and cinema of the idyllic conceptualization of the home within cultural imagination, and to trace the ways in which it is exposed as a structure that preserves traditional and intersecting definitions of gender, ethnic and national identity. The performances of the house in these texts emerge as a powerful graphic expression of criticism of the spaces in which identity is created within the geography and ideology of the private and national home.

During the course we will explore the theoretical discussion of space in general and  home in particular as a gender issue. Within this context, we will read a series of works from the literature and film of women in recent times as works that give the house a central and destabilizing role in the narrative of feminine subjectivity.

Students are required to participate in all the class meetings; to read all course materials as they are detailed in the syllabus; to write a final paper (a short referat or a full seminar paper).

The final grade will be determined by the grade of the final paper.