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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
History, Memory, and Trauma in U.S. Literature from the Late 19th Century to the Early 21st Century
The various articulations of the notion of memory will be examined through the recurrence of the figure of the ghost in representative texts of the U.S. literary canon, from the turn of the 19th to the beginning of the new millennium, in which official history is problematized, recontextualized, and rewritten. In addition to analyzing the themes and formal characteristics of the texts, issues related to the processes of (de)construction of ethnic and gender identities as a result of wars, diasporas, and migrations will be explored. We will then look at the specificities of literary genres (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) and phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
The content of the first part of the course (36 hours - 6 CFU/ECTS), taught by Prof. Vincenzo Maggitti, will focus on authors and texts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, except for a contemporary reimagining of Huckleberry Finn (1885)—one of the seminal works of American literature—which will serve as a bridge between contemporary American literature and that of the nineteenth century.
(reference books)
Percival EVERETT, James (London: Mantle, 2024)
Henry JAMES, The Turn of the Screw
Frank NORRIS, McTeague. A Story of San Francisco (si discuterà in classe sull'edizione da prendere)
Charlotte PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper (pdf)
Saranno, inoltre, discusse le trasposizioni cinematografiche di due dei testi adottati: The Innocents di Jack Clayton e Greed di Erich von Stroheim.
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, disponibile alla Petrocchi Library).
Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Vintage International, 2004, ebook, disponibile online).
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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