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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Colonial and early 19th-century American literature, American romanticism, rise of realism and naturalism, 19th-century New York in literature, Civil War literature, race and class in American literature, early Latina/Latino literatures in the United States. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the meanings of "Asian" in the context of a multi-racial/cultural America. Studies and compares cultural productions of Asian peoples alongside those of different racial/cultural groups. Literary and cultural convergences in North America, Caribbean and South America ultimately reveal the plurality and complex interdependencies of Asian, African, Latin, European and indigenous peoples due to colonialism, globalization and transnational political phenomena. Interdisciplinary and questions assumptions of nation and subject identity. Through comparative study and linkage, the multiplicity and meanings of American citizenship and cultural identity in the U.S. are systematically re-examined. Readings from the 19th and 20th centuries that consider and theorize hybridity, gender, bi/multiracialism, diaspora, globalization, coloniality and transnationalism, among other topics.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to some of the major American novels of the 19th century: The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary literature, Southern renaissance in America, Asian American literature, Jewish writers, gay and lesbian literature. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Selected works by 20th-century women writers, authors including de Beauvoir, Woolf, Lessing, Nin, Colette, Kingston, Walker, Plath, Rich and others. Fiction, poetry and theoretical discussion. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Such poets as Frost, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, Cummings, Roethke, Thomas, Lowell, Wilbur, Kinnell, Levertov, Ammons, Rich, Snyder, Plath, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Specialized and advanced topics in the literature of black peoples: Harlem renaissance, African women writers, black novelists, etc. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the prose and poetry of contemporary Africa. An introduction to African oral literature; writers who combine both the oral and written forms in their works; contemporary authors; and current experiments in film. Emphasis on representative authors of the major regions: West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of works of one or more authors. In recent years, Faulkner, Dante, Dickens, the Brontes, Flaubert, Sand and Eliot have been among those offered. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Chaucer's contribution to Western thought and letters. His poetry considered in relation to medieval literature, but also in relation to modern reader.
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