LTWR 214 The Invented Self in 20th and 21st Century U.S. Fiction

Uses novels to examine both the literary and societal implications of the idea of self-fashioning, with an eye to tracing literary and cultural movements such as modernism, postmodernism, magical realism, queer theory, critical race theory, transnationalism, disability studies, indigeneity, and intersectional feminism. Major developments in U.S. history will be examined alongside literary texts.