ENGLISH 202-4 - Six American Authors #13018

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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TT 2:00 HASRATIAN DISTRIBUTION I: A DIVERSITY: US FOCUS In this course, we will examine six writers whose work comprises a singularly American literature even as we show that such literature is as plural as America's people. Each of the six writers struggles with such major cultural categories as ethic and racial origins, class, reproduction, gender, and sexuality. Each writer uses fiction as a formal means of addressing and changing problems that can't be solved in real life, sometimes by inventing novel categories that we continue to inhabit. The narrative fiction for this course may be drawn from Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Stephen Crane or Frank Norris, Zora Neale Hurston or Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Nathanael West or Thomas Pynchon. This course is an introduction to American literature and will provide you with the critical tools necessary for understanding how fiction is a living and thinking component of American social and political life. The course's requirements include several short essays and a final research paper.

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3.00

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www.umb.edu

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(617) 287-5000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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