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ENGL-286-01 Class Fictions in Contemporary US
Fall only
Fall 2008
This interdisciplinary course examines U.S. literary and popular cultural representations of “low” classes/cultures (working class/poor/’underclass’) from the 1990s to the present. With the aid of recent theory and cultural criticism, we will focus on ways in which categories such as race, gender, and sexuality help to construct our contemporary notions of what “class” means in America. We will be studying a wide variety of texts, forms, and genres—fiction, autobiography, film, music—and taking up a broad spectrum of issues, including theories of working class identity, social/cultural resistance, and the notion of “representation” itself. Course work will include 1 short paper (5-7 pp.); 1 class presentation; 1 midterm exam, and one final paper (12 pp.).
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Fall '08:
Fox, P
(file download)
Fall '08:
Tinkcom, M
(description)
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