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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 450 - Cultural Borderlands in Contemporary American Literature Explores the psychic middle ground where tensions between competing claims for
identity, myth and belonging play out. The tenacity of cultural distinctions,
the deep hunger of people for roots, and conflicts between national and cultural
mythos will be explored in fiction and nonfiction from contemporary American writers
whose native cultural traditions strongly inform their work, including Franco-American,
Native American, Latino-Latina and African-American writers.
Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive
Requirements.
Prerequisites 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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