ENGL 362 - Literatures of American Nationalism and the Crisis of Slavery

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 350
Literatures of American Nationalism and the Crisis of Slavery examines the ways in which U.S. authors from different backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, and points of view created and debated an “American” identity in the decades leading up to the Civil War. We will be putting these authors in conversation with each other as they seek, in ways conventional and radical, to narratively construct a nation they could be proud to-or in some cases, allowed to-live in. This course satisfies the Constructions of Race requirement for the English major.