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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the gothic novel in late-18th and 19th-century British literature. With plots involving suspense, mystery, crime, the supernatural, incest, impersonation, vampirism, theft, and murder, gothic novels constitute the conventions of the 19th-century domestic romance gone wild. The deception and disorder that make these plots so enticing also subvert fixed domestic and social order characterizing fears about a rapidly changing Victorian world. Readings will include works by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, and Bram Stoker. We will also cover trends in criticism of the gothic that rely on contemporary gender, queer, and postcolonial theory. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
We live in a time of unprecedented migrations and intermingling of formerly separate peoples, of dissolving borders, of the collapsing sense of distances. For at least two decades now, world literature has been revitalized by the cross-cultural experiences of many new writers, who in their works straddle more than one culture in unprecedented ways. What makes for literary originality at a time when so many are writing out of a similar, highly politicized, cultural context We will begin by reading "predecessor" writers who were driven to reach from one culture to another, often in the face of political and cultural pressures to which they responded in such highly original ways that they initiated their own lines of literary tradition. We will study their works, but also the writers themselves, and the environments that shaped them. We will then move on to contemporary writers. Readings will be drawn from such predecessors as José Marti, Machado de Assis, Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, V.S. Naipaul; and such more recent writers as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jhumpa Lahiri, André Aciman, Jessica Hagedorn, Junot Diaz, Dagoberto Gilb, José Manuel Prieto, and Zadie Smith. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural cont Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Latino fiction of the past 15 years has come a long way from civil rights conversations and autobiographical narratives of growing up as "the other." Latinos in the United States are employing innovative textual and linguistic strategies to imagine and define a new place for themselves in U.S. society and in the Americas. Textual narratives from authors Hector Tobar, Alfredo Vea, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas, Coco Fusco, José Rivera, Erika Lopez, Dagoberto Gilb, Demetria MartÃnez, Salvador Plascencia, et al, will assist us in understanding this new positioning, in tandem with visual narratives from youtube, film, and performance art. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 180 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will study in relation to one another the antebellum novels, short works, and personal writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe. These major American authors both produced fascinating, suspenseful, moving, and eerily-weird writing, so first and foremost, we will have some fun reading. We will examine the development, associations, and cultural significance of these two authors. Hawthorne and Stowe grappled with some of the most influential ideologies and political debates of their historical moment; they thought a lot about what makes good writing and what writing can do for human beings; and they both connected themselves to vital writing communities and traditions in America and abroad. Reading their work will tell us a lot about 19th-century literary movements and antebellum American culture. We will also use our explorations of these two writers to gain a better understanding of American literature and culture in general. Scholars have looked to their works as important reflections of American ideals and American identity. While reading and discussing Stowe and Hawthorne, then, we will be able to discuss how American literature and culture has developed, as well as how the study of American literature has changed over time. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Five centuries of European colonization spread the European languages across the planet. English is now virtually our global lingua franca. With immigration, global mass media and the internet blurring borders and ideas of national and cultural identity as never before, it is obvious that the "borders" between national literatures are blurring as well. This class will study the work of contemporary writers from around the world-Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Oceania- who, sometimes because it is their first language and sometimes as a matter of (anguished) choice, write in English, often in order to depict worlds that can seem alien to that language. Some of these writers are immigrants to England or the United States whose works express bi-national, bi-cultural or bilingual sensibilities; some are firmly rooted in one particular place; some seem determined to free themselves from specific national or cultural contexts. The writers whose work we will study will be drawn from the following: Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Solinka, J.M. Coetzee, Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean Rhys, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Flanagan, Alma Guillermo Prieto, Monica Ali, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat and Monica Truang. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contex 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course treats a selection of novels, essays, short fiction, and poetry by African American writers of the period, including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jesse Fauset, and Jean Toomer. Emphasis is on identifying the characteristics that unify this body of literature and on investigating the significance of the Harlem Renaissance within the African American literary tradition. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will survey the field of feminist literary theory, tracing topics such as recovering female literary traditions, the intersection of race, class and gender, women's creativity and silence, gender and genre, sexuality and embodiment, globalization, and literature as activism. Authors studied may include: Audre Lorde, Patricia Williams, Joan Scott, Diana Fuss, Jane Tompkins, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Chandra Mohanty, Assia Djebar, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Bonnie Zimmerman, Alice Walker, and Nancy Armstrong, among others. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In this course we will focus on themes of exile, immigration, the colonial notion of the "mother country," and the elusive concept of home in Caribbean novels and short stories. Our discussions will also be informed by literary portrayals of national, racial, religious, and gender identity. We will read classic novels by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Samuel Selvon, and V.S. Naipaul, contemporary narratives of displacement by Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Andrea Levy, and Opal Palmer Adisa. Finally we will read essays by George Lamming and Caryl Phillips, as well as Audre Lorde's "biomythography." For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will read short fiction by both canonical writers, like Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, and Crane; lesser-known writers, like Alice Cary, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Chesnutt, and John Milton Oskison; and some writers who have in recent times reemerged from obscurity, like Jack London, Kate Chopin, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. We will consider how fiction changed in the course of the 19th century and in what ways, if any, race, gender, ethnicity, and geography shape modes of narrative. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A survey of American fiction from the end of World War II, through the Cold War 1950s, 60s, 70s, and concluding in the aftermath of U.S.-Vietnam War. Included will be novels and short stories by Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Stone, and Joyce Carol Oates. Students should be prepared and willing to read a novel a week, or its equivalent, as well as occasional secondary readings for historical context. Evaluation will be through a combination of quizzes, short papers, mid-term, and final exam. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Lecture
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