Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad de Zaragoza
Course Title:
American Contemporary Literature
Course Number:
27853
Course Description:
UNIT 1. The intersections of race and gender in US ethnic literatures: the fiction of Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich. 1.1. Ethnic literatures of the US: methodological introduction and overview. 1.2. African American racism, shame and trauma: Toni Morrison’s “Sweetness.” 1.3. Native American resurgence against the violations of the woman’s body and Mother Earth: Louise Erdrich’s The Round House. UNIT 2. Posthuman ethics and the female body. 2.1. Transhumanism vs. Critical Posthumanism: an overview. 2.2. The Anorexic Posthuman: Flesh and the Female Self in Jenefer Shute’s Life-Size (chapter selection). 2.3. Narratives of the Anthropocene: Speculative Fiction and Divergent Corporeality in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. UNIT 3. Literature in the 21st Century: Transformations Wrought by Digital Technologies, Digital Culture and Social Media. 3.1. Digital Technology and Culture in Contemporary American Literature: Transhumanism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 3.2.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 355
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