English 10C-2 - Spring, 2011

Literatures in English III: 1900-Present

Class Information

Instructor: Addona, James
CRN: 32231
Time: TR 12:10-1:30
Location: 105 Olson

Description

This is the third course in the required Literatures in English sequence, with this installment focusing on Anglophone literature between 1900 and the present. This is a writing and reading intensive course designed as part of a sequence to prepare majors to succeed in upper division courses. This course will consider the complex and dynamic relationship among national and regional British, American, and postcolonial literatures. We will consider literatures of Diaspora, migration, and globalization, as well as the place of modernism in this global literary geography. In particular, we will engage thematic and historical questions of identity, memory, and violence by considering their relationship to literary form across a wide range of aesthetic modes and genres.

Grading

TBD

Texts

Cane, Jean Toomer
Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf
In the Castle of My Skin, George Lamming
Endgame, Samuel Beckett
Cloud 9, Caryl Churchill
The Waste Land and Other Poems, T.S. Eliot
Tropic of Orange, Karen Tei Yamashita
The Course Reader, available at the bookstore on 3rd & A