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Course Criteria
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Every other year. Spring 2008. PETER COVIELLO. A study of the relations between sentiment and belonging across the American nineteenth century. Considers both how a language of impassioned feeling promised to consolidate a nation often bitterly divided, and some of the problems with that promise. Centers on a reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other authors may include Jefferson,Wheatley, Melville, Hawthorne, Wilson, Harper, and Du Bois. (Same as Africana Studies 277.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2006. DAN MOOS. Engages the writings of black women in the nineteenth century. Includes reading of poetry, novels, essays, activist literature, slave narratives, and autobiographies in order to understand the complicated position of nineteenth-century black women with reference to patriarchy, racism, slavery, abolitionism, education, the African Diaspora, and national affiliation. Special attention is paid to the scholarly tensions with the more celebrated tradition of nineteenth-century prose by African American men. Authors include Harriet Jacobs, Mary Ann Shadd, France E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Pauline Hopkins, Hannah Crafts, Mary Prince, and others. (Same as Africana Studies 283 and Gender and Women's Studies 280.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar of 100-level course in English, Africana Studies or Gender and Women's Studies, or permission of instructor. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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Spring 2007. DAN MOOS. As early as 1773, African Americans petitioned whites in power for their removal from America so that they might start a community or nation of their own. Examines the impulses toward colonization and emigration in African-American history, including movements that looked to Africa as an African-American state. Looks at historical documents, essays, and speeches, but focuses primarily on the speculative possibilities offered by African-American authors such as Oscar Micheaux, Martin R. Delany, Surron Griggs, and Toni Morrison. Explores real and fictional black nations, black towns, and even secret black governments and tries to determine the impulse for this departure, as well as the ideological import of black separation from the American nation. (Same as Africana Studies 281.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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Spring 2007. DAVID COLLINGS. Introduces a range of new questions that, over the last three decades, have challenged the fundamental assumptions of literary and cultural studies: How are notions of authorship, greatness, or "high" art shaped by other forms of social power How might literary modes ofreading apply to forms of cultural expression other than literature, including popular culture To what extent is any text consistent with itself, or does it inevitably undermine its key concepts in the course of articulating them Do texts that encode social privilege - whether of class, gender, race, nationality, or sexuality - resist it as well How reliable are the oppositions that anchor critical reading, such as male/female, white/black, home/exile, straight/gay Where is meaning (or an unsettling non-meaning) to be found: in the text itself, symptoms of its unconscious desire, its relation to prior texts, its implication in contemporary discourses, or its intervention into its historical moment Examines theoretical statements of these and other questions and applies them in experimental readings of short texts chosen in conjunction with the class. Prerequisite: One first year seminar or 100-level course in English, Africana Studies, or Gender and Women's Studies; or Gay and Lesbian Studies 201.
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Spring 2007. BELINDA KONG. The telling of a nation's history is often the concern not only of historical writings but also of literary ones. Examines some shaping moments of twentieth-century China - the Second World War, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Massacre, and most recently, the Three Gorges Dam project - with specific focus on literature by authors born and raised in China but since dispersed into a western diaspora, including the United States, Canada, Britain, and France. Considers works across multiple genres, written in English as well as those in translation. Critical issues include the distinction between immigration and exile, the relationship between history and literature, the grounds of representational authority, and the complexities of narrating violence. Authors may include Ha Jin, Annie Wang, Anchee Min, Ying Chen, Jung Chang, Hong Ying, J. G. Ballard, Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Shan Sa, Yang Lian, and Bei Dao. (Same as Asian Studies 212.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department, or one course in Asian Studies.
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Every other year. Fall 2006. BELINDA KONG. An introduction not only to the writings of Asian America, but also to the historical development of Asian American literature as a field of discussion, study, and debate. Begins by focusing on a seminal moment in the formation of this field: the critical controversy sparked by the publication of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976). Then turns to more recent fiction and questions of how to re-conceive Asian American literature in light of these works. In addition to Kingston, authors may include Amy Tan, David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, and Jhumpa Lahiri, Susan Choi, Lan Cao, and L¨º Thi Diem Thúy. (Same as Asian Studies 213.)Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department, or one course in Asian Studies. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2006. AVIVA BRIEFEL. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 287.)
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THE DEPARTMENT.
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Every year. English 300-level courses are advanced seminars; students who take them are normally English majors. Their content and perspective varies-the emphasis may be thematic, historical, generic, biographical, etc. All require extensive reading in primary and collateral materials.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. WILLIAM WATTERSON.
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