| Course Title: Advanced Topics in English: 'Critically Examining Whiteness in U.S. Literature and Popular Culture' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2023 |
| Description: What can literature and popular culture teach us about the construction of whiteness and the United States' history of white supremacy? How can literary analysis be used to examine, confront, and contest whiteness's social and political power? This seminar will critically analyze literary and cultural texts that emphasize whiteness's visibility, and that challenge whiteness as the presumed default in U.S. culture. Authors may include Dorothy Allison, Chang-rae Lee, Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, and Philip Roth, as well as select contemporary films and television episodes. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Shannon Mooney | smooney@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023 | Seminar | Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 319 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 3 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Playing in the Dark Author: Morrison, Toni Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780679745426 Publisher: |
Required | 10.00 |
| Title: Aloft Author: , Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781594480706 Publisher: |
Required | 14.00 |
| Title: Bastard Out of Carolina Author: Allison, Dorothy Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780452297753 Publisher: |
Required | 16.99 |
| Title: Citizen: An Ameican Lyric Author: Rankine, Claudia Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1555976903 Publisher: Graywolf |
Required | 20.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |