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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 30429
Online: Synchronous
Online
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
Although Gothic literature began in Britain, the genre found quick purchase in the U.S., where internal battles often exposed the young republic as an ill-stitched federation of parts, a Frankenstein body politic threatening to come undone. America as an ideal has been resuscitated again and again, but the revived dream still reels with recurrent nightmares. This class will examine how the Gothic has shape-shifted over time to represent the most chronic social conflicts in the U.S.: beginning with a slave narrative, we’ll proceed through texts that portray the legacies of racism and other uneven distributions of opportunity and power. Our discussions will remain sensitive to the dividing and unifying movements that continue to influence visions of America. Readings will include Harriet Jacobs, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL; Octavia Butler, FLEDGLING; Shirley Jackson, WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE; and Richard Brautigan, THE HAWKLINE MONSTER; as well as short stories by Poe, Chesnutt, Bierce, Hawthorne, Faulkner, Welty, O’Connor, Bowles, and Carol Oates. Selected essays from AFRICAN AMERICAN GOTHIC: SCREAMS FROM SHADOWED PLACES, by Maisha L. Wester and AMERICAN GOTHIC FICTION, by Allan Lloyd-Smith, will supplement our primary texts. Films may include THE ELECTRIC HOUSE (Keaton, 1922); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Siegel, 1956); and GET OUT (Peele, 2017). The writing load for this fully online course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive requirement.
4 Credits