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Jan
16
Thu
Education :: Classes
also Special Events :: Community Event
Place and Space: Fiction of Three Women Writers
3:00 PM (America/Denver)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM (MOLLI)
Place and Space: Fiction of Three Women Writers
3:00 PM (America/Denver)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM (MOLLI)

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Description:
Join instructor, Beth Ann Rothermel, in exploring the work of Mary Wilkins Freeman, Maria Cristina Mena, and Zora Neale Hurston. Through presentations and class discussions, we will focus on their use of place to depict women’s lives. Each writer employs imagery rooted in a particular region in ways that both perpetuate and resist damaging assumptions about gender roles. Wilkins Freeman sets her stories, often about older women of limited economic means, in rural New England; Maria Cristina Mena explores the intersecting European and Indigenous roots of women in her home country of Mexico; and Zora Neale Hurston creates stories about Black women in both New York City and Florida. We will also consider the shifting critical reception each of these writers has received over the past century. 1.5 hour, 6-week course on Thursdays, Jan 16 through Feb 20. In-person and remote options. Cost - $70 (one-time annual MOLLI membership $40). Registration Required.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM (MOLLI)
Address: 32 Campus Dr, Todd Bldg, 211 Missoula, MT 59812
Phone: 406-243-2905