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Reading, Response & Self-Reflection in American Literature A word is dead, when it is said, Some say鈥� I say, it just begins to live That day 鈥擡mily Dickinson We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new...

This course takes a deep dive into the writings of Toni Morrison, the foremost African-American novelist of our time. Winner of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for Literature, Toni Morrison鈥檚 works probe vital questions about race, gender, and power in our contemporary culture. Starting with The Bluest Eye and going...

This course examines how what we have come to think of as 鈥渢he canon鈥� is entwined with the US鈥檚 ethnic literary tradition. We will explore how the two are not only inseparable but in fact mutually constitutive, marking the major shifts in US literary history. Authors may include Herman Melville,...

Explores American literature as a site of cultural intersection between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: American Literature Taught by Ramesh Mallipeddi .

For this semester the subtitle of American Poetry will be 鈥淭he Visionary Tradition.鈥� And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice...

This course explores American literature as a site of cultural intersection between European settlers and indigenous peoples. We will read early American texts in conversation with films portraying those encounters, bringing a critical and historical lens to both. For example, we will read Jacques Cartier with Hochelaga: Land of Souls...

Instructor: Prof. Cheryl Higashida Course on literature and culture of the "long civil rights" movement spanning the twentieth century to the present. A central question we'll explore: what is and should be the relationship between art and activism? We will study the relationship between social and cultural movements such as...

Instructor: Prof. Karen Jacobs Positioning itself at the crossroads of contemporary literature, geography, and new materialist philosophies, this course will explore how American millennial fictions map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and evacuate spacetime; and in tandem it will consider how theoretical texts on space and time (re)conceptualize these...

Instructor: Prof. Ed Rivers This course studies modern American writers writing about their own lives, and students will have a chance to do their own personal writing. Texts will include not only autobiography and memoir but also fiction based on the writer鈥檚 own life. We will study essays and stories...

Chronological survey of the literature from Bradford to Whitman. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: American Literature