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Teacher
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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
"American Ghosts": History and Memory in 20th- and 21st-Century U.S. Literature
Different forms of memory will be examined through the recurring image of the ghost in representative texts of the 20th- and 21st-century U.S. 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 also focus on the specificities of literary genres (fiction, poetry, non-fiction) and phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
(reference books)
Henry James, "The Turn of the Screw";
----, “The Jolly Corner”;
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”;
----, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”;
-----, The Waste Land (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2001).
Alain Locke, "Enter the New Negro", Survey Graphic, Vol. VI, No. 6 (March 1925)
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;
Don DeLillo, Underworld (selected chapters, any edition);
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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Università Roma Tre