BERKELEY ENGLISH SUMMER 2021

English 166

Special Topics: Narrating the Nation

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
2	Spring 2012	Mukherjee, Bharati Mukherjee, Bharati	TTh 12:30-2	210 Wheeler	Novel Special Topics

Book List

Coetzee, J: Disgrace; Danticat, E: The Dew Breaker; Diaz, J: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Fitzgerald, F. S.: The Great Gatsby; Flaubert, G: Madame Bovary; Forster, E. M.: Howards End; Mukherjee, B: Jasmine; Rushdie, S: Shame; Smith, Z: White Teeth

Description

This course will focus on each novelist’s invention of, or critique of, national identity myths in a time of national crisis. Students will explore the intimate connection between choice of narrative strategy and construction of meaning.

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fall, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Writing Race: Faulkner and his Progeny	Danner, Mark
166/2	Special Topics: Burn it Down/Build it Up: Protest, Dissent, and the Politics of Resistance	Saha, Poulomi
166/3	Special Topics: "Race, Social Class, Creative Writing, and Difference"	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: The Literature of the Fin de Siècle	Viragh, Atti

spring, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: The Graphic Memoir	Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
166/3	Special Topics: Hemingway and Masculinity	Danner, Mark
166/4	Special Topics: The Social Media of Literature	Zeavin, Hannah
166/5	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

summer, 2021
166/1	Special Topics: Broadway Musicals	Drawdy, Miles
166/2	Special Topics: Law and Literature in the United States	de Stefano, Jason
166/3	Special Topics: Queer Tourism	Eisenberg, Emma C.
166/4	Special Topics: Four Nobelists: Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Seamus Heaney	Nathan, Jesse

fall, 2020
166/1	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/3	Special Topics: The Age of Crisis	Strub, Spencer

spring, 2020
166/2	Special Topics: The Literature & Art of Incarceration	Padilla, Genaro M.
166/3	Special Topics: Moby-Dick	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/4	Special Topics: Pomo: Exploring the Landscape of Postmodernism	Danner, Mark
166/5	Special Topics: American Humor: Books & Movies	Starr, George A.
166/6	Special Topics: Art of Writing: Grant Writing, Food Writing, Food Justice	Schweik, Susan
166/7	Special Topics: Arthurian Romance	Nolan, Maura

summer, 2020
166/1	Special Topics: Medieval Fantasy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones	Stevenson, Max
166/2	Special Topics: Global Catastrophe and Modern Literature	Nathan, Jesse
166/3	Special Topics: The Broadway Musical	Drawdy, Miles

fall, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Getting Global: Literature & Film of an Expanding & Unequal World	Saha, Poulomi
166/2	Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film	Goble, Mark
166/3	Special Topics: Writing as Social Practice	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/4	Special Topics: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America	Lee, Steven S.
166/7	Special Topics: Charles Dickens	Breitwieser, Mitchell
166/8	Special Topics: Green Thought in a Green Shade	Turner, James Grantham
166/9	Special Topics: New Orleans	Wagner, Bryan
166/11	Special Topics: The Works of Vladimir Nabokov	Naiman, Eric

spring, 2019
166/1	Special Topics: Gothic	Duncan, Ian
166/2	Special Topics: Marxism and Literature	Gonzalez, Marcial
166/4	Special Topics: Poetry and Prose of Race and Social Class	Giscombe, Cecil S.
166/5	Special Topics: Asian American Literature - World, Nation, Locality	Leong, Andrew Way
166/6	Special Topics: Realism, Then and Now	Cordes Selbin, Jesse
166/7	Special Topics: Anton Chekhov	Muza, Anna

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English 166

Special Topics: Narrating the Nation

Book List

Description

Other Recent Sections of This Course

fall, 2021

spring, 2021

summer, 2021

fall, 2020

spring, 2020

summer, 2020

fall, 2019

spring, 2019