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ENG 263 - Traumatic Tales: Global Trauma in Literature and Culture

This course examines the formation of British and American national identity through their troubling origins in women’s subordination, class hierarchy, enslavement, settler colonialism, and imperialism. Focusing on narratives of the enslaved, political poetry, the domestic novel and memoir, this seminar explores the ways in which writers from the nineteenth-century forward attempted (and often failed) to narrativize global trauma that articulated an alternative political narrative against a national hegemony, which erased state acts of exploitation and terror. To better understand the concept of global trauma, we will also read in psychoanalytic and critical theory related to genocide, oppression, and torture. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the 1700-1900 Period (D-2) or the Theory (E) requirement. 

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: One 100-level English literature course (ENG 100-199) or permission of instructor

Course Designation/Attribute: DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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