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AMER 208

American Texts and Contexts II

AMER 208 picks up where the fall sequence leaves off, tracing American culture from Reconstruction through the present by reading literary texts against the historical currents that produced them, immigration, the color line, modernist disruption, the Cold War, civil rights. You'll work across genres and primary sources (Du Bois next to Booker T., Hughes next to Hurston, Baldwin next to King) and write continuously, with tutorial support, toward an essay-driven midterm, final, and research project. It's the second half of the AMER core that pairs the literature survey with the history survey, giving you the interdisciplinary habits the rest of the major, theory, period seminars, the senior project, assumes you already have.

Kredi4ECTS6.5FakülteFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümAmerican Culture and LiteratureÖn koşulAMER 207KoordinatörPatrick Charles McDonaldMüfredatY2 Bahar

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl
20.-21. yüzyıl Amerikan edebiyatına kültürel giriş
Introductions: Culture, Literature, and History A Brief Lecture on an overview of the literary periods in 20th & 21st century American Literature: Reading: “Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure” in Ed. L. Fink, Major Problems in the Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (325-335) New Explorations of an “American” Self From Jane Addams, “Democracy and Social Ethics” (1902) & From The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) (selected pages) Mary Antin (873-874), from The Promised Land (871-881)
Jane AddamsMary Antin, The Promised LandConsumer Culture and Commercialized LeisureGilded Age ve Progressive Era
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
Modern dönem 1910-1945: Washington ve DuBois
Modern Period 1910-1945 (884-914) Booker T. Washington (916-917), “The Atlanta Exposition Address” (935-941) W.E.B. DuBois (943-945), from The Souls of Black Folk “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (946-951) and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (951-959)
Booker T. WashingtonW.E.B. DuBoisThe Souls of Black FolkThe Atlanta Exposition Address
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Modern dönem şiiri ve kısa öyküsü
Modern Period 1910-1945 continued Robert Frost (1146-1147), “Mending Wall” (1149-1150) & “Stopping By Woods” (1159) Sherwood Anderson (1164-1165), “Hands” (1166-1169) Ezra Pound (1215-1217), “A Pact” (1219) and “In a Station of the Metro” (1219) Gertrude Stein (1255-1257), from The Making of Americans (1257-1258) H.D. (1340-1341). “Sea Rose” (1341-1342)
Robert FrostEzra PoundGertrude SteinH.D.
Hafta 45–11 Eki
New Negro Renaissance: Locke ve Hughes
The New Negro Renaissance (1578-1581) Alain Locke (1581-1583), “The New Negro” (1584-1592) Langston Hughes (1611-1612), “Negro” (1617), “Harlem” (1619) & “I, Too” (1618). Addison-Wesley, “The Roaring Twenties” (480-503) and “Boom and Bust” (504-523)
Alain LockeLangston HughesHarlemRoaring Twenties
Hafta 512–18 Eki
Modern Amerika: sorunlar ve vizyonlar
Issues and Visions in Modern America (1729-1730) Randolphe Bourne (1730-1731), “Trans-National America” (1916) (1731-1743) Anzia Yezierska(1743-1744), “America and I” (1745-1752) H.Zinn, “War Is the Health of the State” from The Twentieth Century: A People’s History (1998) (77-98) Recommended reading: A. Redding, Radical Legacies: Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States (Lexington Books, 2016)
Randolphe Bourne, Trans-National AmericaAnzia Yezierska, America and IHoward Zinn, War Is the Health of the State
Hafta 619–25 Eki
1920'ler ve Buhran dönemi edebiyatı
1920s and the Depression Era Tillie Olsen (2265-2267), “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) from Elements of Literature 5 (1982) (306-312) Malcolm X (2541-2542), “Nightmare” (1-22) & “Mascot” (23-38) from Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
Tillie OlsenI Stand Here IroningMalcolm XDepression Era
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Midterm ve 1945 sonrası çağdaş dönem
Midterm Exam, March 20, 2017 (Monday) Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present (2012-2017) & Orthodoxy and Resistance: Cold War Culture and Its Discontents” (2018-2023)
midtermContemporary Period: 1945 to the PresentCold War CultureOrthodoxy and Resistance
Hafta 82–8 Kas
1945 sonrası: James Baldwin ve Civil Rights
Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present continued James Baldwin (2221), “Sonny’s Blues” (2222-2243) DVD on the Civil Rights Movement
James BaldwinSonny's BluesCivil Rights Movement
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Sivil haklar hareketi ve Martin Luther King
Civil Rights Movement New Communities, New Identities, New Energies (2455-2461) Martin Luther King, Jr. (2528-2529), “I Have a Dream” (2530-2533) DVD film version of the speech and cultural context will also be shown. Aldon D. Morris, “Domination, Church, and the NAACP” (1-16), “Beginnings & Confrontations” (17-39) from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986) Recommended reading: Aldon D. Morris, “Theoretical Overview & Conclusion” (275-290) from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986)
Civil Rights MovementI Have a DreamAldon D. MorrisNAACP
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
Vietnam Savaşı'na edebi yanıtlar
Literary Responses to the Vietnam War: Maxine Hong Kingston, “Introduction: Tell the Truth, and So Make Peace,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (1-3). Robert Golling, Jr., “The Body Escort,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (122-129). Julie Thi Underhill, “war dream i,” & “war dream ii,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (569).
Maxine Hong KingstonVeterans of War, Veterans of PeaceRobert Golling, Jr.Julie Thi Underhill
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
11 Eylül'ün Amerikan kültürüne etkileri
9/11 and Its Effects on American Culture DVD: National Geographic: Inside 9/11 Henry A. Giroux, “Introduction: Challenging the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex After 9/11” from The University in Chains (2007) (1-12) Jaideep Singh, “Interpreting Media Representation at the Intersections & of White and Christian Supremacy” from Ed. Rebecca Ann Lind, Race/Gender/Media (2004) (117-125) Responses to American society Edward W. Said, “Origins of Terrorism” from Ed. Barsamian, Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said (103-131) H.Zinn, “The Double Horror of 9/11” from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007) (73-75)
military-industrial-academic complex (Giroux)white and Christian supremacy (Singh)Origins of Terrorism (Said)The Double Horror of 9/11 (Zinn)
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
Hurricane Katrina, travma ve disposability politikası
The Hurricane Katrina, 2005, and Its Impact on Racioethnic Stereotypes DVD--National Geographic: Inside Hurricane Katrina & TV Interview in US with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun on the actual experience of discrimination Jerry W. Ward, Jr. from Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma & Recovery (2008) (11-29) From David Eggers’ Zeitoun (2010) (319-325) The Hurricane Katrina, 2005 continued DVD, National Geographic: Inside Hurricane Katrina Henry A. Giroux, “Katrina and the Biopolitics of Disposability” from Stormy Weather: Katrina & the Politics of Disposability (2006) (1-78)
Hurricane KatrinaZeitounKatrina Papersbiopolitics of disposability
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Hurricane Katrina ve ırksal-etnik stereotipler
The Hurricane Katrina, 2005, and Its Impact on Racioethnic Stereotypes Continued Jason De Parle, “Broken Levees, Unbroken Barriers” from Eds. Segal & Martinez, Intersections of Gender, Race and Class (2007) (565-567) H.Zinn, “Big Government” from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007) (29-34) May 1, 2017 Holiday
Hurricane Katrina 2005racioethnic stereotypesJason De ParleHoward Zinn
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Obama sonrası Amerikan kültürünü yeniden düşünmek
Toward New Ways of Thinking about American Culture in the Post-Obama Era: A Re-Evaluation of Barack Obama's Speeches versus his Actions DVD, on Barack Obama, The Power of Change. Brief Overview: Barack Obama, “A More Perfect Union” (2008)& “Inaugural Address” (2009) Tim Wise, “Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters, and the Myth of Color Blindness” (15-23) from Tim Wise, Speaking Treason Fluently (2008) D.Trump's Discourse on the U.S. Foreign Policy--2017 Final Discussion and Wrap-Up Session
Barack ObamaA More Perfect UnionTim WiseD. Trump

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