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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines American prose poetry of the past century, looking at the ways in which it has intervened in questions about what poetry is and how it relates to other literary forms. We will start off with a brief look at the classic French prose poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé, in order to see how a parabolic prose participates in the dissolution of genres that begins in the nineteenth century. Then, we move to the American poets who use prose poetry to interrogate language philosophically, turning the sentence into a unit of poetic composition: Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, Robert Creeley, and John Ashbery. Finally, we will look at a variety of recent writers for whom prose poetry is the site for an encounter between narrative and poetry: Paul Auster, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Theresa H.K. Cha, Kathy Acker, Laura Mullen, and Renee Gladman.
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Close analysis of selected 20th Century American movies.
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3.00 Credits
By reading writers from the larger hemisphere of the Americas, this graduate seminar seeks to rethink the relationship between transnational subjectivities, globalization, and modern social formation as they are represented in literature. Rather than accepting America as a synonym for the United States, this course approaches "America" as a dynamic contact zone, as the embodiment of the overlapping interstices of cultures that the political designation of the nation too easily belies. Topics of consideration will include the global South, sexuality and nationality as liminal categories of being, cultural forms of hybridity and syncretism within diasporic systems, and the social meanings and possibilities of the current geo-political moment. Writers may include Dionne Brand and Lawrence Hill from Canada, Claude McKay from Jamaica, Edwidge Danticat from Haiti, and W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes from the U.S., among others.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the works of several African-American Women writers, including Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and June Jordan, specifically the relation these writers have to the larger American culture and what they have to say about our collective vision and future.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality and their interrelationships structure the discourse of black women writers since the 1970s.
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3.00 Credits
A study of prominent contemporary Latino/a poets whose work has enriched and diversified the canon of American poetry in the last 20 years.
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3.00 Credits
A close examination of culture, gender, and "citizenship", and how these modalities are constructed, in the literature of the African-American Diaspora.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of selected Latino/a fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and film, to explore the specific literary and social histories of various Latino/a subgroups as well as the relationship between Latino/a literature and the literature of the Americas.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the aesthetics and histories of the Caribbean through its literature by investigating topics such as slavery, religion and sexuality, and anti-colonialism, all of which identify the circum-Caribbean.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the historical, cultural, and political circumstances that led to the flowering of African-American literature in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.
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