ENGL 359 - "Race-ing" Studies in Classic American Literature

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
African American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
This course begins with Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature and Morrison's Playing in the Dark as literary-critical points of departure for exploring the American imagination "symptomatically"; next, we take up contemporary theoretical (critical race) studies of "whiteness" and "blackness." Throughout, then, we will consider how race has discursively functioned as a provocative, tendentious literary figure -- if also a persistent socio-historical category -- useful for investigating national anxieties (but also pleasures!) in landmark works of fiction. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. Johns
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.'

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