ENGL-489 American Postmodernisms
Prerequisite: ENGL-190; recommended, at least one 200-level English course.
Curriculum: Fulfills Upper Division Literature Requirement for A&S and Business; honors credit available for eligible students.
Description: The literature of our time. Inaugurated by the Holocaust and the atomic bomb, shaped by movements for social revolution in the sixties; the Vietnam War; ghetto, suburban, and mass culture; immigration and an increasingly global consciousness. Analysis of how the troubling and wildly experimental contemporary novel represents our culture, with emphasis on the avant garde and the emergence of minority literature. Authors to be studied include Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Tim O’Brien, Jhumpa Lahiri and John Edgar Wideman.
Current Text: selected works.
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ENGL-489-M01
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3
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Dewey
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Eng
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TR
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11:00-12:15
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Spring
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