ENGL 301 Multicultural Literature in the United States
This is an upper-level intensive reading course designed to immerse students in literature produced by people of color and disparate ethnicities in the United States. For decades, the Western literary canon was dominated by texts that did not always represent the experiences and stories embedded in the complex mosaic of American society and culture. This class is intended to address that oversight by focusing exclusively on authors that represent Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and other voices. Students will examine narrative, character, theme, and representation in context as well as critically. Note that ENGL 270 is a prerequisite for this course: students will be expected to apply Postcolonial and Decolonization lenses to the texts examined herein, looking at issues of voice, representation, power, as well as linguistic and sociocultural structures implicitly and explicitly reflected through literature.
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