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Academic Year 2002/2003

Racial Meaning in American Literature, 1892-1912
ENGL 346 SP

This course will examine how within a 20-year period, American writers attempted to define race, ethnicity and Americaness after a failed Reconstruction. We will explore experimentations of regional voice, the plantation narrative and its revisions, the serial novel, the black women's club movement, and the modernist project. We will consider how the theme of racial crisis brings about literary innovation, and how within this atmosphere occurs a shift in American writing from regionalism to modernism.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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