Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0264 - Americans Abroad

This course will trace a genealogy of the "American abroad" in literature (and in a few films) from Mark Twain's time-just before the closing of the U.S. frontier in the late 19th century-up to the present, paying particular attention to the ways in which literature has represented U.S. power and "American" identities beyond the nation's borders. Authors will include Mark Twain, Henry James, Claude McKay, Ernest Hemingway, Paul and Jane Bowles, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde. Students will work also on developing research and writing skills: finding topics, creating research questions, gathering sources and writing an annotated bibliography, writing a project proposal, and writing and revising a research essay.

Writing and Research Independent Work