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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
History and Memory in 20th- and 21st-Century U.S. Literature
Different forms of memory will be examined through representative texts of the 20th and 21st-century American literary canon in which official history is problematized, recontextualized, and rewritten. In addition to analyzing the thematic and formal features of the texts, we will explore issues related to the processes of (de)construction of ethnic, racial, and gender identities as a result of wars, diasporas, and migrations. We will focus, then, on the specificities of literary genre (fiction, poetry, non-fiction) and on phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
(reference books)
Henry James, The American Scene (any edition, selected chapters);
----, “The Jolly Corner” (any edition).
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”;
----, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”;
-----, The Waste Land (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2001).
Nella Larsen, Passing, in Quicksand and Passing, ed. Deborah E. McDowell (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers UP, 1986, available at the Petrocchi Library).
Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Vintage International, 2004, ebook, available online).
Carole Maso, Ghost Dance (any edition);
Don DeLillo, Underworld (selected chapters, any edition);
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin, available at the Petrocchi Library).
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