ENGL 313 - America the Multicultural

Institution:

Trinity College

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This course considers questions of identity, immigration, ethnicity, and race as they figure in a range of American texts. We will focus on authors who, by their own volition or not, have been identified as "minority writers" and who comprise an emerging multicultural canon. Among our questions: What is the usefulness, what are the limitations of various cultural categories How do authors create and/or respond to the pressures of cultural identification How do these pressures translate into aesthetic choices And what are our responsibilities as diverse readers of diverse texts Authors will include James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Martin Espada, as well as visual artists such as Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, and Shahzia Sikhander. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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