This course will present basic concepts and
representative texts for the study of Americana literature from approximately
1950 to the present. In reading fiction and nonfiction prose, drama, and poetry
selections in the NortonAnthology
of American Literature Since1945,
you will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the vast social,
economic, historical, political, and literary changes that followed World War
II and ways in which these have evolved into the social, technological and
global circulations of the 21st century.
Texts: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon; Art Spiegelman’s MAUS;NortonAnthology
of American Literature Since 1945: Vol. E.
Requirements: Regular reading quizzes, two essays, class
participation, including a ten-minute oral presentation; final exam.