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. Junior standing required.
- Teacher: Michael Mirabile