Spring 2025 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1119 section 001

CROSSING BORDERS: THE AMERICAS

CROSSING BORDERS: THE AME

Call Number 00203
Day & Time
Location
MW 8:40am-9:55am
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Linn C Mehta
Type LECTURE
Course Description

This course cuts across borders between North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, in a search for the ways in which literature illuminates different aspects of American identity--especially gender, class, ecological, racial and ethnic identities. Since modernity, in the sense of freedom from tradition, first developed in the Americas, the literatures of the Americas involve diversity and innovation from their beginning. After examining the roots of Modernism in North and South America at the end of the 19th century, we will look at the development of modernism, post-modernism and post-colonialism in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the study of key novels, short stories, and poetry from North and South America and the Caribbean, including works by Martí, Lorde, Anzaldúa, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Eliot, Neruda, Césaire, García Márquez, Borges, Cortázar, Valenzuela, Kincaid, Danticat, Lahiri and Valeria Luiselli. Considering these works in their historical, political and aesthetic contexts helps us to grapple with the multiple formations of American identities.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 10:05AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1119
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251FYWB1119X001