WRIT 125 18 - New Voices in American Fiction

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Wellesley College

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Schwartz (The Writing Program) In this course, we will read the stories and novels of four diverse American writers: Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, Ha Jin and Edward P. Jones. We will look at how these writers have mined their ?outsider? status to produce an extraordinarily rich body of fiction. Most impor-tantly, we will consider how writers from very different linguistic and cultural backgrounds have created themselves as American writer s. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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