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Teacher
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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
History, Memory and Trauma in U.S. 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
The different forms of memory (historical, collective, personal, post-memorial) will be examined through a sample of representative texts of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary canon. The historical periodization will broadly refer to the decades 1900-1945; 1945-2000; 2001-present. Special attention will be placed on questions related to the representation of trauma, the construction of ethnic identities as a result of diasporas and migrations, the construction of gender identities, the narration of collective and personal histories. These issues will be explored focusing on the specificities of literary genres (fiction, poetry, film) and phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
(reference books)
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2015, consultabile presso la Biblioteca Petrocchi).
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1994, available at the Petrocchi Library)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2001)
Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, any edition.
Toni Morrison, Beloved, any edition.
David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13:2 (Summer 1993) available at http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin, available at the Petrocchi Library)
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