LIT-415 Seminar: Ambivalent Inheritance: Faulkner across the Americas
This course will trace lines of influence and revision running from William Faulkner through Latin American writing of the Boom generation to contemporary fiction in the United States. We’ll consider the inheritance of biology and property; of guilt and promises and dreams; and of formal strategies, images, and tropes--and the ways in which negotiating those legacies becomes a means of negotiating the self’s relationship with both society and history. Possible authors: W. Faulkner, G. García Márquez, J. Rulfo, C. Fuentes, J. Donoso, R. Ferré, T. Morrison, J. Eugenides, A. Bender, J.S. Foer
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
3 courses in literature.
Offered
Spring
Notes
(History).