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This course will trace the rich and diverse tradition of women's writing in 19th-century America. We will consider the contexts that influenced women's writing and evaluate women authors' contributions to literary, political, and social movements during the 1800s through the turn of the century. We will pay particular attention to representations of race, class, ethnicity, region and gender in women's writing. African American, Euro-American, Hispanic, Native American, middle- and working-class women authors will be studied. Authors studied will include: Louisa M. Alcott, Lillie Devereux Blake, Grace MacGowan Cook, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fanny Fern, Frances E. W. Harper, Nella Larsen, Elizabeth Keckley, Zitkala-Sa, and Maria Cummins. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The AMISTAD affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well. 1.00 units, Seminar
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These days the business of museums is as closely analyzed as magazines, movies, and similar products, but the work of museums remains a mystery. To understand the choices involved in creating exhibitions, it is helpful to know how the museum functions from mechanics to ethics. This course will take students beyond the stanchions to explore issues and challenges involved in managing the museum. Along with methodological and theoretical readings, students will visit a range of Hartford-based museums and cultural centers to establish background in the structure that supports a museum. Presentations by professional staff from local institutions will provide a unique perspective on the joys, frustrations, responsibilities, and the necessary qualifications for work in museums. Course not open to undergraduates. American Studies 825 is recommended and interested students should contact the Graduate Studies Office for more information. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider factors that have influenced varied approaches to the exhibition and representation of Native American objects and cultural history in North American museums. Students will examine the ways in which Native American objects have been collected, interpreted, and presented for museum display, using a comparative approach, through field trips to the American Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Current trends will be studies in the context of changing theoretical approaches to cultural history studies as well as recent social and political changes in Native American communities. Field trips, some guest speakers, exercises/project. Course not open to undergraduates. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Students are introduced to the issues and processes involved in developing exhibitions, and explore different approaches to cultural and historical interpretation at a range of museums. Class sessions and exercises will examine the basics of exhibit planning and development. Topics include the conceptualization of exhibit themes and educational goals; learning in museums; visitor needs and accessibility; design elements; technology in museums; and audience evaluation methods. Through critical readings of course literature and site visits, students will also consider the various interpretive methods utilized at living history museums, historic houses and historical sites, history and cultural museums, and urban historical parks. Includes some field trips, guest speakers, and student projects. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Intensive examination of selected history-making texts in their cultural contexts, from the Revolution through the early 20th century. Among the works to be examined: Tom Paine, "Common Sense;" Ben Franklin, Autobiography; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America; Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Frederick Douglass, Narrative; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course examines how Americans have defined race and ethnicity over time as well as the historical experiences of non-whites and immigrant groups in the 20th century. In what ways are ethnic and black experiences similar In what ways are they different Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Why is it that certain writers, very well-known in their own times, later disappear from view or are trivialized as, for example, "The Sweet Singer of Hartford" or "stuff for boys who don't read" In this course we will examine a number of case studies of such writers: Lydia Sigourney, Alice Cary, Jack London, Amy Lowell, and, happening right now, Tillie Olsen. We will also consider the extent to which such writers have come back into view. And we will look at one or two contrary cases: writers who were not seen as terribly important in their own times but who later became central to American literary study, like Herman Melville. In other words, we will study the question of "canon formation" in d 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relation between politics and culture in the Cold War era. In the United States the Cold War was marked by a virtually unprecedented campaign to marginalize and contain political and sexual nonconformity, a campaign that threatened to transform the nation into a mirror image of its political and cultural other, the Soviet Union. Americans who failed to conform to the emerging political and sexual consensus, such as communists, homosexuals, and career women, were construed as the "enemy within" and relentlessly persecuted. How did postwar American culture both contribute to and undermine this campaign To answer this question, the course emphasizes the complexity of Cold War culture, focusing in particular on the construction of racical and gendered identity in the postwar period. Texts will include the films Mildred Pierce, I Was a Communist for the FBI, Imitation of Life, Vertigo, and The Misfits; the plays Death of a Salesman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Raisin in the Sun; the novels Maud Martha, Invisible Man, On the Road, Another Country, and The Bell Jar. Supplemental readings include essays by James Baldwin, Irving Howe, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Friedan. Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course will combine our analysis of key theoretical texts in museum studies with visits, as a group, to museums themselves. We will consider in historical perspective (from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century) the arguments of museum founders, practitioners and theorists as they address: nation-building and national and cultural identities; the representation of histories -- including histories of human suffering; the status of the visitor; ongoing negotiations between the museum and its intended, excluded, alienated, and combative publics. We will pay particular attention to the evolving notion of museum innovation - the topic of this year's annual conference of the American Association of Museums. 1.00 units, Seminar
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