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English 262 - Winter, 2017
American Literature after 1914
Class Information
Instructor:
Martín, Desirée
CRN:
44096
Time:
T 3:10-6:00
Location:
120 Voorhies
Description
In recent years, American cultural studies have been productively redirected away from the hegemonic national model and towards other categories such as the transnational and the regional. These are categories that might seem to be diametrically opposed to one another, as regional literatures have been historically thought of as minor or peripheral categories of a national tradition, while transnationalism is generally regarded through the lens of border-crossing, narratives of contact zones, and globalization. Yet narratives of nationalism are also structured through the transnational and regional, while the transnational and regional may be read through various forms of nationalism. In this seminar, we will examine the intersections between the national, transnational, regional, paying particular attention to the manner in which all of these terms shape each other.
Grading
Class participation
In-class presentation (@ 20 min) with written analysis (2-3 pgs)
15-20 pg. seminar paper
In addition, you will be required to submit an abstract of your final paper a few weeks before it is due so that I can provide comments and feedback (will not be graded)
Texts
Their Eyes Were Watching God
, Zora Neale Hurston
Absalom, Absalom!
, William Faulkner
Death Comes for the Archbishop
, Willa Cather
Their Dogs Came With Them
, Viramontes
The Brief Wonderouse Life of Oscar Wao
, Diaz
City of Night
, Rechy
Blood Meridian
, Cormac McCarthy