Posted: April 18th, 2015

Research paper for Sabina Berman, “The Mustache “

Final Essay

This research paper must be 10-12 pages long and follow MLA guidelines.

You may choose to write about any of the following texts:

• Elena Garro’s Recollections of Things to Come
• Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
• Luisa Valenzuela’s “Porno Flick” and “United Rapes Unlimited, Argentina”
• Sabina Berman’s “The Mustache”
• Reinaldo Arenas’s Hallucinations
• Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)

You must use 2-3 theoretical sources from our syllabus:

bell hooks, “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression”; Ania Loomba, “Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies”; Mary Jacobus “The Difference of View”; Norma Alarcón, “Chicana’s Feminist Literature: A Re-Vision Through Malintzin/or Malintzin: Putting Flesh Back on the Object”; Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”; Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory”; Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”; Michael Foucault, “Docile Bodies,”“We ‘Other Victorians’”

You must use 3-4 secondary sources, at lease one of which must be a print source.

Important dates:

3/18 peer “editing” of essay topics (do a preliminary search of articles and come up with a possible topic before Wednesday’s class)

4/8 annotated bibliography for final essay (preliminary): must have 5-7 theoretical/secondary sources

4/13 outline (2 copies)

4/27 essay #3, version 1 (must be at least 10 pages long)

RRR week: mandatory meetings

Final essay due MONDAY, MAY 11, before 11:59pm via bCourses. NO LATE FINAL ESSAYS WILL BE ACCEPTED.