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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
An examination of the development of Anglophone writing in India from the late 19th century to the present with an emphasis on the novel. NW.
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5.00 Credits
A study of postcolonial Anglophone African literature and some francophone writing in translation. Possible topics include the impact of imperialism, cultural and political decolonization, and the place of Africa in a global economy through a study of different literary works. NW.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the poetry and prose of Spanish-speaking Latin American countries as that literature expresses the history and native genius of Latin American culture, especially in the context of the interrelation between colonizers and colonized. Writers may include Borges, Vargas Llosa, Garcia Marquez, Neruda, and Fuentes. NW.
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5.00 Credits
A study of Canadian identity and the arts in cultural dialogue with the United States, Europe, and the Commonwealth. Possible topics include nationhood, postcolonial tensions and re-visions, and the relationship between humanity and nature. Authors may range from early settlers and writers such as John Richardson and Susanna Moodie, to Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje.
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5.00 Credits
A study of nineteenth-century antebellum American literature, including texts by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Special attention to the way in which these texts engage issues such as revolution, slavery, nationalism, westward expansion, women's rights, democracy, and war. A.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the American contribution to the novel up to approximately 1950, with emphasis on the cultural diversity of writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Henry James, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, Baldwin, and Oates. A.
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5.00 Credits
A study of the American spirit as sensed through the words of its poets, with special emphasis on Americans' problematic response to nature and to the nation's history fromcolonial times to the present day. A.
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5.00 Credits
A study of major American playwrights of the 19th and 20th centuries, including such authors as Glaspell, O'Neill, Hellman, Wilder, Hansberry, Guare, Williams, Wilson, Mamet, Miller, Albee, Shepard, and Wasserstein. A.
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5.00 Credits
A study of fiction of the American South, from the Antebellum period to the present, focusing on the effects of slavery and the Civil War on the development of the distinctive Southern voice in such writers as Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, Mary Lee Settle, and Ralph Ellison. A.
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5.00 Credits
An exploration not only of the issues and themes common to American writers of color, but of the very concept of an "ethnic American" literature. NW.
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