AMCL 180a - "Something is About to Happen"-America in the World's Imagination

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Vassar College

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"No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger faith in the republic than I had, when I landed in America"-so claimed Charles Dickens, in his account of an 1842 visit across the Atlantic to the young democracy. What did he see More importantly: what did he hope or expect to see This course considers literature (novels and short stories, essays, travel writing, journalism and manifestos), film, music and visual art that approaches "America"-as an idea, a hope, a promise, an empire or merely an unreasonably large piece of land-from abroad. Possible authors include: Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Karl Marx, Sayyid Qutb, Graham Greene, Jessica Hagedorn and Martin Amis. Sample artists include: Fela Kuti, the Clash, Tseng Kwong Chi and Jean-Luc Godard. MrOpen only to freshmen; satisfies college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.

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1.00

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www.vassar.edu

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(845) 437-7000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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