Module Identifier | EN11120 | ||
Module Title | AMERICAN LIT II: NEW IMMIGRATION TO MULTICULTURAL NATION | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Matthew R Jarvis | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Mrs Carol M Marshall, Elizabeth A Jacobs, Julia H M Reid, Mr Michael J Smith | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours Two essays on two seminar topics NOT already examined in the essays | 34% |
Semester Assessment | 2 x 2000 word essays. One essay will ask for literary analysis based on one set of the seminar texts. The other will require students to investigate a particular topic, theme or issue in relation to the literature on the module. | 66% | |
Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours resubmit any failed elements and/or make good missing elements | 34% |
10 x 1.5 hour workshops will be accompanied by 5 x 1 hour lectures, which will be delivered once per fortnight. The purpose of these lectures will be to raise issues of a more general nature concerning the American literature of the twentieth century, and to guide students into thinking about co-texts and contexts, and to provide aid to students on methods and sources for their seminar research.
Lecture 1. The New Urban America
Lecture 2. The Impact and Aftermath of the Great Depression
Lecture 3. Suppression and Subversion
Lecture 4. Postmodernity in America
Lecture 5. American Multiculturalism
Seminar Timetable and Set Texts
1. Immigrant Voices: Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
2. The Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
3. The New Negro Renaissance: A selection from Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen, in Heath Anthology
4. The Great Depression: Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
5. Cold War Culture and its Discontents: A selection from Allen Ginsberg, poems; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poems; Gary Snyder, poems, in Heath Anthology
6. Emergent Feminist Voices: A selection from Tillie Olsen, 'Tell Me a Riddle'; Adrienne Rich, poems; Sylvia Plath, poems, in Heath Anthology
7. Civil Rights in the 1960s: A selection from Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, in Heath Anthology
8. Postmodern Fictions: John Barth, 'Lost in the Funhouse', in Heath Anthology
9. Multicultural Voices: Gish Jen, Typical American
10. New Communities, New Identities: A selection from Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Roberta Hill Whiteman, Gary Soto, and Simon Ortiz, in Heath Anthology