6 Literature and Cultural Diversity
3 credits
Analysis of differing uses and evaluation of literature. Focus
on standard texts (short stories, plays, novels, and poems)
as well as representative works, that emerge from the family
and home communities of the students and/or different cultures
and historical periods.
25.2 British Folklore
3 credits
Influence on literature of legends, tales, and other folk
narratives of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Such
folk beliefs as witchcraft, fairy lore, alchemy, and divination.
Ballads, ballad singing, and poetry. Folk drama and mummers’
plays. Folksongs of the British Isles.
31.2 The Bible as Literature
3 credits
Representative Biblical selections evaluated by literary criteria.
Origin and development of the English Bible as a literary
classic.
50.4 Women and Literature
3 credits
Sexual roles and the sources of sexual conflict in English
and American literature. Problems of sensibility, style, and
audience. Function of literary images of women.
50.41 Contemporary U.S. Women Writers: Diverse Cultural Perspectives
3 credits
Literature of selected contemporary Native American, African
American, Latina, Asian American, and other women writers,
analyzed from the perspectives of feminist literary theories.
A comparative course focusing on the literature of two or
more groups.
63.2 Introduction to Italian American Literature
3 credits
The struggle and development of a distinctive Italian American
tradition in literature. Discussion of language, class, assimilation,
gender, literary form, and the search for a usable past.
64.2 African American Literature to 1930
3 credits
Literature from the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance.
Slave narratives, rhetoric of abolition, and formal and vernacular
aesthetics. Such writers as Phyllis Wheatley, David Walker,
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington,
Paul L. Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson,
W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay,
Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.
64.3 Modern African American Literature
3 credits
Literature from the 1930 to the present. Naturalism and protest,
the black aesthetics, and women’s literature. Such writers
as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert
Hayden, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker,
and Toni Morrison.
64.4 Black Women’s Fiction
3 credits
Identity of the modern black women novelist as seen in the
works and lives of African American women novelists. Some
cross-cultural comparisons with African and Caribbean women
novelists. Readings of selected essays in Black feminist criticism.
31.1 East Asian Literature
3 credits
Survey of Chinese and Japanese literature. Chou dynasty songs,
T’ang poetry, Ming novels, and the literary revolution; the
Man’yoshu, The Tale of Genji, Shinkokinshu, haiku, and waka
of the Tokugawa period; such modern authors as Mishima and
Kawabata. Korean sijo poetry may be included.
32.2 African Literature
3 credits
Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub-Sahara
Africa. Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta,
Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, and Soyinka.
38.1 New Literature of Latin America
3 credits
The new Latin American literature from its origins to independence
and maturity. Such twentieth-century writers as Carpentier,
Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Guimaraes Rosa, and Paz. Impact abroad
of the new masters of Latin American literature.
38.3 Caribbean Literature
3 credits
Black culture and writing in the Caribbean. Reflection on
alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements,
Negrism, Indigensim, and negritude as first emancipations
from a European cultural vison. Writers from the English-,
French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined.
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