ENGL 401 Mid-Late 20th Century Literature in
This course focuses on the great works of the mid- to late 20th Century written in English, from the late modern and postmodern to the contemporary. The world changed after WWII, and so did the literatures composed by writers; new themes, symbols, ideas, and sensibilities proliferated in the wake of conflicts that had unleashed weapons the world had never seen, and left in its wake an undreamt scale of destruction and human suffering. The late 1900s would see the exponential development of technologies that would redefine society and humankind; the rise of secularism, liberalism, globalism, and other sociopolitical movements; and so this course focuses on the stories that capture the complex pattern and flux that characterizes the world we think we know. In keeping with TMCC’s mission and emphasis on Decolonization, this course will also locate contemporary Native communities in the mid-late 20th Century through the stories and perspectives of indigenous writers. Critical analyses of Native writing will afford the opportunity to complete the circle and consider the rise of Decolonization Theory as an evolution of critical discourse during this period of literary history.
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