Spring 2007 Courses

English 130-01: American Voices: In Dialogue (Attewell)

M/W/F 1:10-2:10pm Old Main 002

This introductory English course situates contemporary American writers of color in the diasporic and transnational contexts their work both registers and invokes. We will complicate our assumptions about the "American-ness" of American literature by acknowledging the multiple communities – national, regional, racial, sexual, religious, economic, and/or political – to which "American" writers imagine themselves (or are imagined) as belonging, and for which they write.

Readings will include fiction, drama, poetry, and prose by such writers as Caryl Phillips, Susan-Lori Parks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Bhanu Kapil Rider. Assignments will include weekly reading responses, oral presentations, and formal critical essays.

Spring 2007 Course Listings