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Courses: 50B

 

ENGL 50B Introduction to American Literature II

GROWING PAINS. English 50B is a survey of American literature from 1865 to the present. By focusing on texts that examine the complex and contradictory intersections of race, gender, class, and immigration, we will interrogate what an “American literature” means and what are its purposes. We will study literary production in relation to the costs of urbanization and industrialization, the promises and failures of Reconstruction, U.S. overseas territorial expansion, the legalization of racism, the Great Depression, the Cold War and the space race, the Civil Rights movements, and the fallout of corporate culture. The objectives of this course are twofold: 1) to investigate the role that culture plays in how we know and think about U.S. history, and 2) to consider our own relationship with culture and citizenship as we move into the new millennium. Texts will include fiction, historical accounts, films, laws, and scholarly articles.
 

 


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