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May 23, 2024
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2022-2023 Hill Book (Class of 2026) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 171 - Literature of Protest (Cornerstone Seminar)Three Credits
Periodically or As Needed
In a moment of crisis, the place to go for a sense of justice has often been literature. A tradition of protest in print goes all the way back to the pamphleteer Thomas Paine and the civil rights advocacy of Thoreau. Today, it informs the work of such varied writers as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman. Protest literature opens for the reader an alternative window onto our history–slavery, the forced migration of Native Americans, women’s suffrage, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights movement. This course will be an examination of a variety of literary works from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the ways they critique prevailing power structures and ideology. How writers harness the power of literature in times of upheaval and construe the social and political purposes of their art, will be central questions of the course. By examining literature that resists the inhumane we will trace various traditions of protest literature and discover the means and methods of protest writers from several different cultures and national literatures.
General Education Attribute(s): First-Year Seminar, Literature Cornerstone
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