| 0626.2067 ספרות אמריקנית מודרנית Modern American Fiction | |
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| פרופ' חנה-וירט נשר Professor Hana Wirth-Nesher | שו"ת |
| This course will focus on the period between the world wars, from 1918 through the decades of the 1920's and 1930's.
This was a period marked both by mainstream responses to the mass immigration at the beginning of the century and to the mass migration of African Americans to urban areas in the North and by literature emerging from these minority cultures. We will look at the historical, sociological, and political factors that shaped the cultural production of this rich period, including political nativism, blackface minstrelsy, early film, and urbanism. Among the issues that will be discussed will be formal experimentation in narrative technique and characterization, plots of cross-cultural encounter, inscriptions of the “Other,” the construction of national identity, symbolic geography (such as the frontier, Europe, the urban underground, the South) and the ideological aspects of the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender. Primary Works: Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918) Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) Nella Larsen, Passing (1929) William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1932) Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (1934) We will also read several poems and essays. Requirements Midterm Examination Short Paper Final Examination You will be receiving a list of critical materials for this class. | |
| הערות: סמסטר א' | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 31/01/2005 בשעה 16:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 06/04/2005 בשעה 18:00 | |