Notes: How do the literary traditions of the 20th century impress upon us as 21st century readers and what even are today’s major literary movements? This course offers a survey of post-1900 literatures of the English language and its expansiveness in a new age of globalism. We will consider how these texts reveal distinct moments of US cultural spread around the world at the dawns of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will also examine how, at the same time, the development of ethnic literary studies has shaped American (literary) studies. The short stories, novels, poems, plays, and nonfictional ethnographic works explored will offer opportunities to link the material conditions of colonialism, de-colonizing, nationalisms, and globalization to literary movements including naturalism, modernism, post-modernism, magical realism, post-colonialism, and transrealism.

Notes: PRE-COLLEGE SECTION. How do the literary traditions of the 20th century impress upon us as 21st century readers and what even are today’s major literary movements? This course offers a survey of post-1900 literatures of the English language and its expansiveness in a new age of globalism. We will consider how these texts reveal distinct moments of US cultural spread around the world at the dawns of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will also examine how, at the same time, the development of ethnic literary studies has shaped American (literary) studies. The short stories, novels, poems, plays, and nonfictional ethnographic works explored will offer opportunities to link the material conditions of colonialism, de-colonizing, nationalisms, and globalization to literary movements including naturalism, modernism, post-modernism, magical realism, post-colonialism, and transrealism.