![]() ![]() And how were those stories resisted and rewritten even as they were being formed? Ultimately, we will interrogate the so-called "frontier," exposing it as a vastly diverse network of Native-, African- Asian- and Euro-American peoples whose landscapes were already inhabited, already historied, already multinational. This class asks how certain ingredients of the master-narrative of colonial expansion and the American "wild west" - bloodthirsty, sexually dangerous tribal people, violent white outlaws, hard-working normative white families, empty landscapes, easy money - came to be essential to the American myth. It took a lot of storytelling, a lot of literary labor, to invent a destiny and to make it manifest on landscapes, peoples and nations. We will examine narratives of conquest that understand colonial and US expansion across Indigenous lands as "manifest destiny," and narratives of resistance that understand the same history as imperial conquest and genocide. This course will explore Anglophone narratives by white and Indigenous writers, between the arrival of the British in Jamestown and the Philippine-American War. There will also be one or two creative assignments, and a short in-class presentation of your "favorite poem."ĮNGL B204 Native Land, American Literatures, 1607-1899 Papers will be short, but will add up to about twenty-five pages of critical writing over the course of the semester. There are no pre-requisites-except an interest in poetry! You will be expected to attend class regularly, come prepared, and participate actively in class discussions and activities. The goal of the course is for you to become capable readers, interpreters and critics of poetry in a wide variety of voices and styles. This is not a chronological survey of English poetry, but the syllabus has been put together with an eye to sampling the riches of the English poetic tradition and calling attention to some of its most important moments. It will provide grounding in traditional prosody (i.e., in reading accentual, syllabic, and accentual-syllabic verse), as well as tactics for reading and understanding the breath-based or image-based prosody of free verse. This course is for students who wish to develop their skills in reading and writing about poetry. We will practice close reading and the writing and discussion skills necessary to an English major, through engagement with how questions of race and colonialism have driven American future-fantasies from first contact to Star Trek and beyond. In this course we will take a trans-historical look at American fantasies about the Beginning with with Columbus' letters to the Queen of Spain, we will move through the Salem Witch trials and fears of devilish possession, Indian Captivity narratives and the Western, the Ghost Dance religion, free-love, feminist, black and socialist utopian movements, space-exploration fantasies, and end with close attention to the emergent literary genres of Afro- and Native-futurism. Freshmen and sophomores may take only one 100-level course. It is not required for the major, but counts. This 100-level seminar for freshmen and sophomores offers a taste of the reading and writing practices of the English major. ![]() History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the presentĬritical Approaches to Visual Representation: Art, Death, and the AfterlifeĮNGL B103 American Futures: Literatures of New World Fantasy Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Somebody's Watching Me: Surveillance, Policing, and the U.S. Literature in and of Philadelphia, 1682-1865 Iranian Cinema: Before and After the Revolution Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the HumanitiesĬolonizing Girlhoods: L.M.Montgomery and Laura Ingalls WildeĪnimal, Vegetable, Mineral: Medieval Ecologies Race on Film: From Student Movements to BLMĬultural Memory and State-Sanctioned Violence in Latinx Literature Policies, Guidelines, and Handbooks toggle submenu. ![]() Library & Information Technology Services. ![]()
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