This course is a continuation of American Literary History I, although it is not limited to students who have taken the previous course. In this survey of American Literature from the end of the 19th Century to the Present, special emphasis on Multi-ethnic Literature after the 1960s is emphasized. As the dominant White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture weakened, alternative and diverse values emerged in fresh and dynamic literary forms. Such crucial themes as identity problems, religious conflicts, the “sexual revolution” and changing genders, and ethnic controversies of Black Nationalism and Asian, Jewish, Latino, and Native American cultural movements will be critically examined. Students will read literary and scholarly passages in the textbook and in photocopied material.
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