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California has long been perceived in very conflicting ways. It has inspired hopes of prosperity and aspirations of political, religious, and artistic freedom, culminating in notions of a "Californian Dream" and of California as Eden. However, California has also come to represent disappointed hopes and social hardships, and the admiration of the beauty of its landscape coexists with perceptions of the landscape as a "landscape of catastrophe." In this course, we will explore these conflicting images as represented in Californian literature from a historical perspective. Our readings will include shorter texts and poems by writers such as Bret Harte, Robinson Jeffers, and Maya Angelou; our longer readings will include Sam Shepard's play True West. Most readings will be provided in Moodle.
Course requirements: readings, active participation, abstract of paper project, research paper (10-12 pages) |
