Course details

Name: ENGL - 493

Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN WEST

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will consider the American West as an idea, place, and process. We will focus primarily on the period from the 1880s to the 1930s and study texts such as exploration and settlement narratives, autobiography, fiction, historiography, painting, photography, and film. We will examine the iconography of the wilderness; westward migration and pioneer images; the \"closing\" of the frontier; issues of race, class, and gender in relation to nationalism and nativism; the myth of the \"Vanishing American\"; the western as genre; and the legacy of conquest. We will read works by Mary Austin, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Willa Cather, Charles Alexander Eastman, Zane Grey, Nat Love, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, and Zitkala-Sa, among others.

Last updated on 2010-10-17 By Knight Melinda (knightm)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)

Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)

Is course canceled: No