Schedule
Thu, 6:30 PM - 10:45 PM (2/4/2021 - 2/11/2021) Location: CHARL
Thu, 6:30 PM - 10:45 PM (2/25/2021 - 2/25/2021) Location: CHARL
Thu, 6:30 PM - 10:45 PM (3/11/2021 - 3/11/2021) Location: CHARL
Thu, 6:30 PM - 10:45 PM (3/25/2021 - 4/15/2021) Location: CHARL
Thu, 6:30 PM - 10:45 PM (4/29/2021 - 4/29/2021) Location: CHARL
Description
This intensive survey course explores literary depictions of America (the United States) through literature. The texts may include short stories, poems, plays, books, film, music, advertising, television, political speeches, and comic strips. The class develops pedagogical strategies to introduce students to mythologies, dystopias, deconstruction, hauntologies, plimpsests, panopticism, hybridity, colonial and post colonial debates, and the ways in which authors create parallel universes to comment on the America we now inhabit. Students become aware of other Americas that exist in parallel with our own, realities from which many of our students come.