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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to acquire a broad-based, foundational knowledge and understanding of early American literature. Emphasis will be placed on formulating a coherent understanding of the texts, contexts, concerns, and problematics which influenced American literature before 1800 and which continue to structure interpretations of the period.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of American literary culture beginning with the early national and antebellum periods and ending with the Civil War and age of realism. The course considers the problems involved in writing literary history and in forming (and expanding) a national canon. The course considers the cultural and historical pasts that inform these works, as well as the shifting notions of American identity that emerge in the texts.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the diversity of U.S. literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics may include modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the emergence of 1930s protest literature, mid-century experimentation, and post-modernism.
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4.00 Credits
(same as AAS 377) A study of selected African American Literature from the colonial period through Reconstruction, this course will build students' knowledge and confidence as readers and critics of African American culture and society in the United States. We will look at these texts through a lens focused on the effects produced by struggles with American fictions of race, class and sex and their intersections with categories of gender, ethnicity and nation. The course will also explore the canon of African American Literature, its literary tradition, and the connection to and diversions from the canon of American Letters.
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4.00 Credits
(same as AAS 378) A study of literature in the African American tradition, focusing on the realist and naturalist writings of the this period, as well as the prose, poetry, essays and speeches of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. We will interrogate how the social matrices of competing definitions of black identity are reflected in and through writing produced by African Americans, while we trouble notions of authenticity, representation, and essentialism. Works by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, and others will be included. The course will also explore the canon of African American Literature, its literary tradition, and the intersections with and diversions from the canon of American Letters.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines how issues of identity (class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity) have intersected with debates about literary history and tradition (aesthetics, canonicity, and questions of cultural value) in Asian American literature. Although the selected course materials and assignments may vary from semester to semester, each offering of this course focuses on the issues, contexts and representations that have shaped Asian American literature over a period of at least 50 years. In particular, this course focuses on how the Asian American literary tradition and its surrounding contexts have changed in response to, among other things, new patterns of immigration and new debates about the scope, definition and value of the overarching term Asian American.
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4.00 Credits
(same as HGS 380) Elie Wiesel wrote that only a text written by a witness or survivor can be about the Holocaust; otherwise, it is not about the Holocaust. Is the Holocaust so sacred that its representation should be limited? What should the limits be? To consider these and other controversial issues, students will study a range of Holocaust representations and theories.
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4.00 Credits
This course takes an ecocritical approach to literary history by examining varying literary constructions of the relationship between humans and their natural environment. By providing insight into historical development of modern ideas about nature and the earth, the course equips students to think ecocritically about literary and non-literary texts in the contemporary world.
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4.00 Credits
(same as JPW 385) This course is designed to explore and problematize the competing claims of literary journalism on the realms of both fact and fiction; in particular, it is designed to offer students an opportunity to study both the origins of the form in the mid-nineteenth century and its contemporary practice. Ultimately, students will be exposed to the problems, paradoxes and politics of the contemporary distinction between fiction and non-fiction (or literature and journalism) in order to question the aesthetic assumptions and historical circumstances that have fueled that distinction.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys post-1960 poetry and fiction. Emphasis is placed on introducing students to the aesthetic range of contemporary literature. Students will read and discuss authors and poets who represent major developments in traditional and non-traditional aesthetics.
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