ENGL 3090 is also offered in Spring 2024
ENGL 3090 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3090 Section 001: General Topics -- Disability and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature (35372)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
Open (12 of 29 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- This fall section of ENGL 3090 will fulfill the "Difference & Diasporas" requirement for the English B.A. and the "Electives" requirement for the English Minor. This course explores the variety of ways that discourses of ability, disability, and mental health were deployed in the literature of the US. long nineteenth-century. The readings stage a conversation between literary analysis, the historical documentation that constructs disability as a system of oppression, and critical theories we use to analyze both. This course is grounded in intersectional frameworks, and we'll look at how disability structures the formation of a national identity, as well as its role in race, class, and gender disenfranchisement and oppression, and in immigration rhetoric and women's rights and anti-slavery reform movements. We will read texts that feature diverse representations of disability, we'll investigate how disabled characters (and writers) often use disability to explore the material and ideological conditions of their social realities. Finally, we will investigate the ethics of that use. Throughout the semester, we will read a range of canonical and non-canonical texts and authors, and explore a variety of genres, including novels, asylum narratives, essays, poetry, slave narratives, and short stories.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35372/1219
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2021 English Classes