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アメリカ太平洋地域文化演習I
Thinking through the Mid-Century American Novel
The mid-twentieth century was a time of exceptional social change in the United States. It was also a time that saw significant storytelling innovations in literature and culture. This course examines how writers examined and critiqued social expectations and conventions by creating narrators who think differently. Reading the work of James Baldwin, John Okada, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, and Joan Didion, students will consider the major social changes in mid-century America as well as how writers allowed readers to engage these conversations in ways that only literature could make possible. Students will be introduced to different critical theories including disability studies, new formalism, and new historicism. Students will also complete two short papers, a group project, and long research essay over the course of the term.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to do the following:
•Discuss the relationship between disability, difference, narrative structure, and aesthetics.
•Explain how literary and artistic texts respond to and are informed by specific cultural moments.
•Apply close reading skills to advance original arguments about literary and cultural texts.
•Engage relevant theoretical and critical approaches when analyzing literary works.
•Discuss the literary and social history of the mid-century United States.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to do the following:
•Discuss the relationship between disability, difference, narrative structure, and aesthetics.
•Explain how literary and artistic texts respond to and are informed by specific cultural moments.
•Apply close reading skills to advance original arguments about literary and cultural texts.
•Engage relevant theoretical and critical approaches when analyzing literary works.
•Discuss the literary and social history of the mid-century United States.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
31D220-1253S
GAS-AS6G05S3
アメリカ太平洋地域文化演習I
チャループカ エヴァン
木曜4限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
総合文化研究科
授業計画
Week 1: The American Mid-Century Experience
Week 2: Queering the American Experience
Week 3: Narration and Disaffection
Week 4: Post-War America
Week 5: The Nisei Generation and their Literature
Week 6: Narration and Trauma
Week 7: Ethnicity, Race, and Nation
Week 8: Narrative and Mid-century Mental Health
Week 9: Mid-century Whiteness
Week 10: First-Person Narration and the Disclosure of Difference
Week 11: Remembering the 60s
Week 12: Ennui and Narrative
Week 13: Envisioning American Futures
授業の方法
Seminar discussion, debate, student presentation
成績評価方法
Attendance and Participation, 300 points: To earn participation, students must complete all assigned texts prior to the start of the class session. Class sessions will involve group discussions, methodology and theoretical workshops, and peer reviews of major assignments.
Close Reading Essay (x2), ~750 words, 100 points each (200 points total): For this short assignment, students will compose an original argument about one literary text they have read in class. Arguments should explain how the formal, structural, and rhetorical features of the selected text create meaning and/or establish a specific experience for the reader. For the second close reading assignment, students will be required to engage at least one critical or contextual source.
Japan-U.S. Intersections Project, 8-10 minute presentation, 200 points: For this partner project, students will create a presentation that identifies and discusses an intersection of Japanese and American culture relevant to the course. Students may consider connections between Japanese and American literature, the Japanese critical reception of course authors, or concurrent cultural histories of the mind between America and Japan. Presentations will begin starting week six.
Final Research Essay, ~2000 words, 300 points: For this extended essay, students will advance an original argument about 1-2 literary texts in the class. Like the close reading essay, the final essay should explain how the formal, structural, and rhetorical features of the selected text create(s) meaning and/or establish a specific experience for the reader. Students must cite at least two critical sources. They are also encouraged, but not required, to cite contextual sources.
履修上の注意
Students will be expected to prepare notes and/or discussion questions prior to the start of each class session in addition to reading the course texts.
その他
講読テキスト Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays, FSG Classics, (ISBN: 978-*****)
