Spring 2008 Courses

English 130-01: American Voices: Multi-Ethnic Literature (Cohen)

M/W/F 1:10-2:10pm Old Main 010

What makes a voice "American"? What are the relationships between different kinds of writing and different "American voices"? How do different literary forms enable writers to find their "voice," to tell stories about themselves and the "America" in which they live? In this course we will seek answers to these and other questions by reading a range of poems, novels, short stories, and plays that tell varying - and often contradictory - stories about the lives and experiences of people in the United States. Some of our authors will include Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Israel Zangwill, W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Lan Cao.

*Cross-listed with AMST 194-02; first day attendance required.* This course fulfills the Major requirement for a course in U.S. writers of color.

Spring 2008 Course Listings