ENG-2014 American Literature From 1865

A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the twenty-first century. We will track the emergence of a global hegemon-and the ways that American literature records the costs of this ascendance. Both the generic diversity of our works and the varied identities of our writers will reflect the glorious, teeming hybridity of recent American culture. Writers discussed will usually include Twain, Chesnutt, Hemingway, Larsen, Faulkner, O'Connor, Baldwin, Updike, Pynchon, Plath, Diaz, Cha, and Alexie.