EGL 242 - (261) Time Travelers, Dark Knights, and Grrrls [sic] with Attitude: American Fiction, 1960-Present

Course Units: 1

(Fall; Selley) Offered twice every four years. This course will examine short stories and novels (and possibly one film) written since 1960 by U.S. and perhaps one or two Canadian writers, with an emphasis on the various manifestations of postmodernism and the complex relationships between authors and their narrators and protagonists. A few older works that influenced these works might also be studied for comparison. Authors might include Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, John Barth, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Gish Jen, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ursula LeGuin, Clarice Lispector, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, J.C. Oates, Tim O’Brien, ZZ Packer, Amy Tan, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Tobias Woolf, and others. At least one recent film adaptation of a work from the period will be discussed. Common Curriculum CC: HUL