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May 04, 2024
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2022-2023 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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LI 204 AMERICAN LITERATURE II
This course continues the survey of American Literature from the Civil War to the present. It further empowers students to explore issues and topics that include, but are not limited to, the intersectionality of nationalism, Native American Removal, American exceptionalism, suffrage, industrialization, post-colonization, race and racism, gender, gender identification, and sexual orientation, mass immigration, civil rights, globalization and technological changes, workers’ rights and labor movements, feminisim and womanism, environmentalism, class mobility, and more. Investigative questions include, but are not limited to: How does literature engage the aforementioned central issues of modern American culture? How has literature responded to these most consequential aspects of American history and culture? What literary and cultural traditions do American authors inherit and what new ones do they put forth? The course is inclusive of a wide range of literature, diverse majority and subaltern authors, and literary movements while paying close attention to radical shifts in American culture over the past two centuries. Students will develop greater analytic skills, literary insight, and a deeper understanding of the main current events of American thought and culture. Lecture: 3 hours per week. 3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 101 (Completion of EN 102 recommended).
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