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3.00 Credits
Survey of Anglo-Caribbean literatures with emphasis on contemporary works. Occasional studies of Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course offers a survey of some of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, with an emphasis on contemporary works and with some attention to the historical and cultural contexts that influenced the literature. It examines the work of poets as well as fiction writers, including writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Erna Brodber, and Jamaica Kincaid.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the multiple strains of the Indian novel that have emerged since 1950. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course explores what have become the predominant larger questions and concerns of the Anglo-South Asian novel: what does the end of empire mean for Anglo-S.A. fiction How did/does partition problematize notions of South Asian identity What is the relationship between globalization and the post-colonial novel Of simultaneous concern are questions of genre and of defining "the field" itself. What criteria are necessary for a work to be proclaimed "South Asian Literature" Must the work's author be South Asian How, exactly, is South Asia defined in this context Are novels written in English truly "South Asian" novels Do novels written by and/or about the English in India earn their place as "Indian" novels Our discussions and analyses of these works are informed by methodologies of post-colonial theory, the Frankfurt School, and cultural materialism. Students are assigned relevant secondary readings in order to prepare them to consider the issues at hand.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of non-Western elements of representative traditional and contemporary American Indian oral and written verbal art. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course is an invitation to read a broad selection of American Indian fiction in order to consider different ways in which its authors negotiate the representational quandaries of multiculturalism and the politics of recognition in the United States. We will focus on how these texts confront the challenge of depicting the many versions of indigeneity as it is variously transformed (and transforms) in the meeting and clash with settler society and culture at a time when such representations are eagerly appropriated by the public discourse intent on redeeming the United States as a properly multiculturalist democracy. To set a broad agenda for our meetings throughout the semester, we will begin with a book that has stirred more controversy than perhaps any other contemporary Native American novel, Sherman Alexie's 1996 Indian Killer. Then, we will retrace our steps to the two key texts of the Native American Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s (N. Scott Momaday'a 196 8 The House of Daw n and Leslie Marmon Silko's 19 77 Ceremony ). From among writers publishing in the last twenty years, we will read fiction by Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, LeAnne Howe, James Welch, Diane Glancy, Greg Sarris, David Treuer, Linda Hogan, and Gordon Henry. In addition to literary texts, we will study a selection of critical writings in the field in order to trace a shift from ethnographic and ethnohistorical criticism to indigenous nationalist approach advocated by contemporary American Indian scholars
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3.00 Credits
Study of major works by Black women writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course provides an overview of literature produced by Black women writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Their writings are viewed within the larger context of world literature, while attention is given to the unique problems faced by Black female writers, the concerns upon which they focus in their works, the importance of their individual works, the milieu that produced them and their works, their triple consciousness, the critical reception accorded them, and the affinities that unite them in an unusual sisterhood.
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3.00 Credits
Selected contemporary fiction and criticism that considers problems of global economy, culture, and language. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: Does the age of cellular internet, global rave culture, and borderless e-commerce have a literature If so, where does it come from and what does it look like What is its relationship to the national literary traditions that persist in the present day How does it relate to such contemporary literary and cultural categories as the postcolonial and the postmodern To answer such questions, this course considers the most influential scholarship on the culture of global capitalism before shifting attention to literary writing. In past versions of the course, readings have included contemporary historical fiction as well as novels of migration and diaspora. Authors have included Salman Rushdie, Alex Garland, Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips, Amitav Ghosh, Michelle Cliff, and Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course considers twentieth-century literature written in and about the former colonies of Europe's modern empires. It concentrates on writing composed in English. Although the course approaches this literature on its own terms, doing so mandates attention to its complicated relationships with the Euro-American canon. Thus, the course considers how postcolonial literature repudiates and seeks to revise European literary forms as well as how postcolonial literature increasingly defines a new sort of canon from an established position inside its boundaries. This course considers how work that emerges from the former colonies or from the migrant populations engendered by imperialism helps to transform the English canon into a more heterogeneous archive. Writers may include Chinua Achebe, Yvonne Vera, Raja Rao, V.S. Naipaul, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Anita Desai, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on representative British authors, 1832-1901, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and scientific issues. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: The period spanning the years 1832 to 1901 in the British Empire was a period of rapid political, economic, social, and literary change. Industrialization and imperial expansion mark an era also known for the flowering of both the realist novel and children's literature, as well as biography, autobiography, and new experiments in both epic and lyric poetry. This course provides a survey of selected literature of the Victorian period, including some if not all of the listed genres and emphasizing the following goals: to acquaint students with the major literary genres and figures of the Victorian period, and to explore the process of canon formation in and after the period; to provide students with an understanding of some of the sociological factors and intellectual movements of the Victorian period, both as reflected and as constructed by the literature of the time; to develop more effective analytical skills in both discussion and writing, through class discussion, in-class exams, and course papers; to explore some of the variety of on-line resources available for the scholar of Victorian literature, with an eye to developing a more thorough awareness of what the resources and their limitations are, and perhaps to developing our own; to identify some of the research "problems" in Victorian literature, and to begin to find approaches to those problems through research and writing.
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3.00 Credits
Reflections of modern sensibility in fiction and poetry of native British and Irish authors and American expatriates. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: From the fin de siecle writings of the 1890s to the literature of globalization of the 1990s, this course charts the course of British literature in the twentieth century. Topics may include the relationship between modernism and British imperial culture, the little England movement of the inter-war period, the early years of Black Britain in the 1950s and 60s, and the emergence of multicultural England in the 1980s. Representative writers include Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Flann O'Brien, Sam Selvon, Hanif Kureishi, and Andrea Levy.
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3.00 Credits
Late 19th- and early 20th-century British fiction and culture in the decades before decolonization. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This is a course about modernism that focuses on a range of novels, some of them fully canonized, all of them centered on what was surely the main item of concern among British intellectuals during the first half of the century, namely, the fate of Empire in a rapidly changing world. We consider how fiction participated in this discussion by reimagining relations between England, the inner colonies of the Celtic Fringe, the Victorian colonies of India and South Asia, emergent colonies in Africa, and the fringes of imperial interest in South America. The special interest of this fiction was establishing rules of engagement between self-identified Englishmen and Englishwomen, immigrants such as the Pole Joseph Conrad and the West Indian C.L.R. James, and colonial populations increasingly well-versed in English language, literature, and culture. By concentrating our attention on the relationship between intellectuals, both colonizer and colonized, we may acquire a clearer sense of how the era of high imperialism transformed into the age of globalization in which we live. We also gain an understanding of what modernism was, what it did in the world, and why it still matters to readers of literature worldwide. Writers may include Olive Schreiner, Rabindranath Tagore, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, R.K. Narayan, and Graham Greene.
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3.00 Credits
American fiction of the late 19th century, with attention to the formation of a national literary culture and the concomitant development of regional voices. Authors studied may include Henry James, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: Most scholars of American literature have identified realism as the dominant mode in fiction of the late nineteenth century. However, many of the writers who have been lumped together under this rubric, such as Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, would seem to have little in common, either in the formal qualities of their work or in the issues they hoped to address in their writing. Why, then, have critics insisted that the late nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a "movement" called realism This course includes a variety of texts from the general period in order to explore literary realism as a problem. What is at stake in defining literary works as "realist," and what elements of texts must be suppressed, ignored, or neglected in order to make them fit into this category The course also pays special attention to the relationship between "realism" and "regionalism," asking why some writers are relegated to the status of regionalists while others are given national importance. A closely related concern is the work of literature in the reformation of the national political culture of the United States following the Civil War.
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