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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of literature written in English-speaking countries other than the U.S. and Great Britain, including but not limited to: Canada, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, Anglophone Africa, and the Anglophone Caribbean. Course may consider multiple literary genres (drama, poetry, prose fiction, essays), in addition to visual art, film, and critical/theoretical contexts. We'll consider how twentieth-century independence movements, as well as particular colonial and post-colonial histories, have reframed the languages and contours of contemporary literature into more transnational and/or diasporic contexts. We'll also examine the meanings, cultural assumptions, and limitations of the term "Anglophone" and consider what's at stake in acts of textuaand cultural translation. Potential topics include: Anglophone Literature and Violence; Afro-Caribbean Literature; Anglophone Prison Literature; Anglophone Fiction and Film. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of twentieth century poetry from modernists W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Frost through major midcentury poets such as Elizabeth Bishop and Langston Hughes, to contemporary writers such as Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, John Ashbery and C. D. Wright. This course will stress close analytical reading of individual poems. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Study of the development of modern drama from Ibsen to the present by reading and discussion of the major late nineteenth century and twentieth century European and American dramatists such as August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Lillian Hellman, and August Wilson. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course foregrounds how gender constructions and politics inform the writing of a period and place; how various genres use gender-saturated discourses; how the gendered body is represented; images of masculinity and femininity; the status of women as writers, readers, and purveyors of the written word. Examples range from feminist thought in mediaeval women's writing to gender differences in expatriate Black cultural modernism to transnational women's literature on utopia. The course will always emphasize gender as a category of critical analysis, and the ways that reading and writing with an eye to gender can transform the futures of texts and their readers. Instructor and focus will vary. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of theoretical accounts of culture, politics and identity in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and related lands since the 1947-1991 decolonizations. Readings include Fanon, Said, Walcott, Ngugi and many others, and extend to gender, literature, the U.S., and the post-Soviet sphere. The course bridges cultural representational, and political theory. Prior internationalist and/or theoretical coursework strongly recommended. Alternate years; next offered Spring 2010. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The literature of the United States exists in a broad hemispheric context which will be the subject of this course. Specific focus will vary, but may include Caribbean literature (including francophone and hispanophone in translation), Latin American literature in a comparative U.S. context, Canadian literature, or other combinations in the writings of the Americas. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of the fiction and poetry of writers from sub-Saharan Africa. The focus will be on fiction since 1945, and readings will be taken both from anglophone writers and from francophone and other writers in translation. Specific content may vary. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on American literature from the late 18th century to just before the Civil War. It will be concerned with the ways in which the attempt to build a democratic republic is taken up and critiqued in a range of literature from the period. Included will be such writers as Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Susanna Rowson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, and Herman Melville. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines an array of American literature written in the second half of the nineteenth century, including poetry, autobiography, essays, stories and novels. It might focus on a particular moment in the late nineteenth century, a particular group of authors, or a particular thematic concern, but it will be concerned to trace out the complicated relation between literary representation and a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape. Authors might include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
America in the first half of the twentieth century seemed to be infatuated with the future-with skyscrapers and automobiles, Hollywood cinema and big business. But in an age that also saw the struggle of Progressivism, the Great Depression, and two foreign wars, many voices called attention to the dark side of success. This course will include such authors as Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Walker Evans and James Agee, Eugene O'Neill, and Dashiell Hammett. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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