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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) A.Logan Introduction to the study of literature written by African-American writers and the criticism of the literature in its different stages of development.
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3.00 Credits
HU S.Finley This course examines poetry and non-fiction writing about place in the work of American writers from Thoreau ( Walden) to such recent writers as Annie Dillard ( Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), John Elder ( Reading the Mountains of Home), and Gary Snyder ( The Practice of the Wild).
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) G.Stadler An examination of non-normative sexualities and gender identifications as the driving thematic and formal force in a series of U. S. novels, mostly canonical and mostly 19th-century. Prerequisite: 150L or a 200-level course in English, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) C.Zwarg Tools of literary history used to examine the influence of African-American culture in the United States. Focus on the literary events of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Emphasis on the authority of African-American culture for U.S. fictions of democracy. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU R.Mohan An exploration of literary modernism in Britain through analysis of fiction, criticism, and aesthetic manifestos in their historical contexts.
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3.00 Credits
HU D.Sherman Irish literature from Swift to O'Brien and Heaney. The course considers this literature as the politically articulate inscription of complex and multiple intersections of history, class and culture. Throughout the course, Irish history, particularly the Famine, (re)appears as an episode of trauma, historical memory and literary investment. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) R.Mohan The course will examine the ways the global circulation of people, ideas, languages, and literary and cultural forms brought about by colonialism, decolonization, and immigration shape specific Anglophone literary traditions.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) L.McGrane This course explores the history and historiography of South African apartheid from its inception in 1948 to its democratic overthrow in 1994. We will consider the interplay between complex definitions of race, gender, nation and difference in novels, plays, and poetry written during the apartheid years. We will also discuss the tension between an ethics and aesthetics of literary production in a time of political oppression. What would it mean for one to write an apolitical text in a cultural space rife with racial and social tensions Authors will include Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton, J.M.Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Alex La Guma. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.) Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) T.Tensuan Readings in novels, short fiction, poetry, and some non-fictional prose by contemporary women writers. A study of the interrelations between literature written by female authors and the questions, concerns, and debates that characterize contemporary feminsit theory. Readings in Hurston, Woolf, Winterson, Lorde, leGuin, Atwood, Erdich, Bambara, Yamanaka, and Cisneros. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU T.Tensuan Works by Kingston, Li-Young Lee, Minatoya, Chang Rae Lee, and Hagedorn. The course considers this body of work in relationship (cultural convergences, literary inheritances, thematic ties) to other canonical American literature: Whitman, Henry Adams, Chandler, and Dos Passos.
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