LIT-138 The Road Trip in American Literature

The road trip in American literature and film symbolizes freedom and self-determination. This course examines and deconstructs the mythology of the road trip by asking who gets to share that freedom through critical analysis of how these narratives intersect with race, gender, class, sexuality and ability, as well as with environment. We will discuss canonical texts by authors such as Mark Twain and Jack Kerouac, as well as newer ones by people of color such as Sherman Alexie, Eddy Harris and Jade Chang, and films such as Thelma and Louise and The Fundamentals of Caring.

Maximum Enrollment

16

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Notes

(Genre or SSIH).