Literature and Place

Use of literature to deepen the understanding of the rich, complex, and varied engagement between human beings and the places they inhabit and imagine. Examination of how places, with their history, traditions, myths, customs, tensions, social structures, and physical form interact with people's lives. Specific sections will focus on a particular city, neighborhood, or region, or on a topic such as City and Country, Women and the Black Diaspora, Utopia, the Literature of the Sea, Elizabethan London, the American West, Colonies, Imaginary Places, Homelessness, or Outer Space. Readings may include fiction, drama, poetry, life writing, and nonfiction.

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