AMST 4521

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AMST 4521
Gender, Memory, and History in Twentieth Century Fiction

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This seminar will investigate the narrative uses of history and memory in US fiction, focusing particularly on the impact of gender on these representations. How do US writers use history in their fiction, and to what ends? What are the effects on drawing on received historical narratives? What challenges does the attempt to represent a historical event pose for a writer of fiction and how might the author negotiate those challenges? Is History a gendered category and, if so, would "male" and "female" and "trans" histories be narrated differently? We will look at the effects of constructing one's own history to fill a void in the received historical narrative, exploring the relationship between history (or History) and memory as well as the fictional representations of that relationship.


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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4521, FGSS 4521

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9799 AMST 4521   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9803 AMST 4521   IND 601

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    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies