AMST 3655

Politics and Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

What is political authority and how is it constituted? How do we judge and act when torn by conflicting obligations? How do political actors in the present negotiate the legacies of past injustice (for example, slavery, colonialism, state violence)? To what extent does the past shape and determine our political present (our sense of self, our relations with others)?  And where might we find the cultural resources for resistance and/or political transformation? These are some of the ethical and political questions we will pursue in this course through the study of prominent (and diverse) works of literature. The course will examine the important contributions of literature to the study of politics, and to the formation of a more thoughtful, critical citizenship.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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