LIT-145 Literature and/of Empowerment

Literature has always played important roles in the cultivation of personal, social, and political empowerment. This course explores a range of debates surrounding literature as a means of individual and group empowerment, issues including the cultural politics of representation; the dynamics of different forms of literary address such as testimony, protest, narrative, and abstraction; the construction of personal and group identity and difference; and writing as a tool for self empowerment.

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

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

Credits

1

Offered

Spring

Notes

(Genre or SSIH) Open to 1st years only.