Fall 2024  |  ENGL 8290 Section 001: Topics, Figures, and Themes in American Literature -- Love and Shame: The American Double-Cross (32092)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 312
Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Dickinson, 19th-century imperialism, Faulkner, San Francisco poets, humor, Chaplin, Hitchcock, and popular culture. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
This interdisciplinary course will consider the outsized affective role that shame (and its ally, grief) have played in the production of 20th century American literatures and film and ask whether modern American cultural production, especially literary production, includes shame as a necessary underlying affect. Drawing on a variety of critical and theoretical texts, we will focus our attention on the "double-cross" at the heart of the national imaginary: how the Utopian ideals of universal equality, liberty, life, and a right to the "pursuit of happiness" (and love) have depended materially and economically upon the subjugation and disenfranchisement of most of the American population. In particular, we will explore how modern American writers and artists confronted this double-cross and responded with stories in which shame, secrecy, and ambivalence could not help but bleed through. Novels, short stories, and poetry by writers such as: Edith Wharton, Tillie Olsen, Nella Larsen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Essex Hemphill, C.K. Williams, Joan Naviyuk Kane. Possible films: The Jazz Singer (1927), Mildred Pierce (1945), adapted from the novel by James M. Cain and Jane Gilloly's Love and Shame. Possible critical texts by: Emma Goldman, Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.E.B. Dubois, Michael Rogin, Anne Anlin Cheng, Grace M. Cho, Walter Benjamin, Lauren Berlant, Sara Ahmed, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Christina Sharpe, etc. others.
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