2009 Fall ENGLISH 155-01
Bulletin Course Description Novelists and poets prominent since 1960. Instructor: Clum, C. Davidson, Ferraro, Moses, Moten, Strandberg, Torgovnick, Wald, or Wallace
(Instructor named in bulletin description above may not be current. For current instructor, see listing below.)
Title CONTEMP AMERICAN WRITERS Department ENGLISH Course Number 2009 Fall 155 Section Number 01 Primary Instructor Moten,Frederick C Prerequisites
Synopsis of course content
Roberti Bolano Nazi Literature in America
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Dictee
Bill Corbett Philip Guston’s Late Work: A Memoir
Nathaniel Mackey Bedouin Hornbook
Ange Mlinko Starred Wire
Laura Mullen Subject
M. NourbeSe Philip Zong
This class will be structured by a relatively tight conception of the contemporary—between 1982 and 2008—and a more expansive notion of America—in which Chile, Mexico, South Korea, Canada and Trinidad take their place within, outside and in disruption of their own and our own national limits. We’ll take up some questions of space and time the authors make available to us, attending to the ways that each of them could be said to comment on those issues of globalization, immigration and economic restructuring that have defined the last few decades of American life. Finally, we’ll pay special attention to questions of form and style in order to consider how experiments at the limits of genre correspond to lives situated at the edges of American identity and American power.
