Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Fiction

A study of fiction written from 1945 to the present. Topics may include decolonizationand movements for racial equality; nationalisms; ethnic identities; feminism andLGBTQ activism; the Cold War; narrative experimentation; the Vietnam War. Writersmay include Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Junot Diaz, Philip K. Dick, Ralph Ellison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, V.S. Naipaul, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, and Richard Wright.

Fall, Spring

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