AMST 266
Topics in American Literature: Freedom and Captivity Spring 2014
Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed ENGL 265
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This course explores the persistent concern in American literature and culture with forms of freedom and captivity in works ranging from William Bradford’s Of Plimouth Plantation to Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Materials studied will include novels, slave narratives, captivity narratives, photography and feature films. We will end the course with a contemporary novel chosen by the students. Comparing the ways different genres imagine freedom and captivity, we will consider the politics of form. Above all, we will attend to how these narratives complicate the ordinary sense of what counts as bondage, and what as freedom.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3711
Grading: OPG
Requirements/Evaluation: two 6-page papers, and one 10-page paper; active attendance and participation; occasional short responses
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: first-year students, sophomores, and English majors who have yet to take a Gateway.
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 266 Division II ENGL 265 Division I
Attributes: ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories B

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