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English 10C-2 - Fall, 2012
Literatures in English III: 1900-Present
Class Information
Instructor:
Shaw, Danielle
CRN:
43415
Time:
MWF 3:10-4:00
Location:
101 Olson
Description
English 10C is the third in the required Literatures in English courses focusing on literature from 1900 to the present. In this reading and writing intensive course, we will be close reading texts that engage with the key formal and thematic concerns of modernism, colonialism and postcolonialism from specific national as well as diasporic perspectives. Each text we study will provide a unique perspective on issues of race, civilization and progress; gender, sexuality and kinship; and region, nation and mobility.
Grading
Close Reading Essay 1: 10%
Close Reading Essay 2: 10%
Research Essay: 25%
Reading Responses: 20%
Final: 20%
Participation: 15%
Texts
Native Son
, Richard Wright
The Sound and the Fury
, William Faulkner
Between the Acts
, Virginia Woolf
Disgrace
, J.M. Coetzee
A Mercy
, Toni Morrison
M. Butterfly
, David Hwang
Course Reader available at Davis Textbooks
