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Trends in American Literature

ENL403 - Θεοδώρα Τσιμπούκη

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Course Description

What relationship exists between new, post-9/11 literature and recent transformations in American culture? How has the war on terror, globalization, neo-liberalism, digital media and new technologies affected contemporary American writing? This course will examine these questions by focusing on American fiction after 9/11, although other kinds of writing will be also considered

NOTE: MIDDLESEX and EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

will be given to all registered students by the instructor

Classes are held every Wednesday 12.00-3.00

Room 823 (8th floor)

Office hours: by appointment

Introduction to the course:

Week 1 +2: Agamben, What Is the Contemporary?

Blatanis, Tseti, Tsimpouki, Introduction: American fiction after postmodernism

Hoborek, Introduction: After Postmodernism

Savvas & Coffman: American fiction after postmodernism

Writing the Limit: Breaking Boundaries, Blending Genres

Weeks 3-6: TEJU COLE: Tremor (2024)

- on the ethics of fiction

- on photography: Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag.

- on transculturalism: Welsch, Epstein, Juneja

- on autofiction

Renewal of Historical Awareness

Week 7 How to represent the unrepresentable: Foer's Everything is Illuminated

"Stories of oblivion and remembrance. Transcontinental memory in the fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer" by Fernanda Mota Alves. In TRANSCULTURAL AMNESIA. MAPPING DISPLACED MEMORIES, pp. 195-202

Gerhard Richter, The Birkenau Paintings