LIT 325 Literature and Power: (subtitle)
In this course, students will investigate the dialogic relationship between power and literature, in which literature reflects and represents structures of power and also works to bolster, shift, or undermine these same power dynamics. Students will examine the workings of power in terms of ideology, discourse, and physical acts. The course may look broadly at power related to race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, class, religion, disability, education, language, and/or politics, or at a specific manifestation of these categories (women writers of the Medieval period, constructions of race in the Caribbean, configurations of "madness" in the Gothic novel).
Notes
This course is repeatable for credit