Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:50PM TR (12-JAN-2004 - 8-MAY-2004) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 500

Section Enrolled: 0

Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 500

Total Cross-list Enrolled: 0

Enrollment data as of: 15-JUN-2024 9:54PM

 

 

 

Description: 2OTH CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN LATER 20TH CENTURY U.S. LITERATURE ***** What do novels and stories tell us about how identities are formed and challenged by the relation between history and individual memory? What do literary texts of the later 20th century tell us about how peole come to know what they know, including how they come to know who they are? In this course we will read a number of texts written in the 1980s and 90s that represent the relations between history, memory, and the formation of a range of identities-- in nation, race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, among others. Throughout we will be interested in how these texts represent the self in terms of its possibilities for and/or the difficulties in revising received histories-- histories that are transmitted through legal, cultural, and familial channels. Also offered as ENGL 462. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Lurie, Susan Cross-list: ENGL 462. Repeatable for Credit.