Exploration of changes to language and discourse
apparent in novels and stories as they engage with
mass media (film, television, etc.), popular
culture, and technologies contributing to a
shrinking (globalization) and precarious (atomic
and nuclear) world during the late 20th and early
21st centuries. Readings of challenging and
provocative narratives in relation to questions of
identity, metafiction, parody, and fictional genre
against the cultural-political backdrops of
postmodernism, the Cold War, and consumerism.
Authors may include Jennifer Egan, Colson
Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni
Morrison, Susan Choi, Octavia Butler, Joyce Carol
Oates, James Baldwin, Philip K. Dick, Marilynne
Robinson, Jonathan Safran Foer, William Gibson,
and J.D. Salinger.
apparent in novels and stories as they engage with
mass media (film, television, etc.), popular
culture, and technologies contributing to a
shrinking (globalization) and precarious (atomic
and nuclear) world during the late 20th and early
21st centuries. Readings of challenging and
provocative narratives in relation to questions of
identity, metafiction, parody, and fictional genre
against the cultural-political backdrops of
postmodernism, the Cold War, and consumerism.
Authors may include Jennifer Egan, Colson
Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni
Morrison, Susan Choi, Octavia Butler, Joyce Carol
Oates, James Baldwin, Philip K. Dick, Marilynne
Robinson, Jonathan Safran Foer, William Gibson,
and J.D. Salinger.
- Teacher: Michael Mirabile