Module Identifier | EN11120 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | AMERICAN LIT II: NEW IMMIGRATION TO MULTICULTURAL NATION | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Helena Grice | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Mr Clive Meachen, Mrs Carol M Marshall, Dr Matthew R Jarvis | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 5 fortnightly one hour lectures | |||||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | Weekly 1.5 hour seminars/workshops | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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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 Zora Neale Hurston (all from Heath Anthology)
4. The Great Depression: Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
5. Cold War Culture and its Discontents: poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poems; Gary Snyder, poems (all from Heath Anthology)
6. Emergent Feminist Voices: Tillie Olsen, 'Tell Me a Riddle'; poetry by Adrienne Rich: poetry by Sylvia Plath, (all from Heath Anthology)
7. Civil Rights in the 1960s: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Martin Luther King, Jr., I have a Dream and poetry by Amiri Baraka (all from Heath Anthology)
8. Postmodern Fictions: John Barth, 'Lost in the Funhouse', and Thomas Pynchon, 'Entropy (both from Heath Anthology)
9. Multicultural Voices: Gish Jen, Typical American
10. New Communities, New Identities: poetry by Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Gary Soto, and Simon Ortiz (all from Heath Anthology)
This module is at CQFW Level 4