ENGL 0200W - Wolf Like Me: Retroviral Anxiety in American Literature

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Brown University

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In American popular culture, anxieties about ethnic and gender identity are frequently coded as forms of monstrosity, transfiguration, or infection. We will trace this displacement to a seam of "retroviral" imagery running through American literature and examine America's tendency to connect psychopathology to biology. Writers include Poe, O'Connor, Faulkner, Plath, Morrison, Roth, Eugenides, and O'Brien. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. LILE

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1.00

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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