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This course will take a closer look at some of the historical developments that have shaped North American literature and culture, and have been shaped by them in turn. It will also address the question of how an understanding of history is informed by one's standpoint as well as social hierarchies more generally. Some of the topics we will discuss include the ongoing significance of settler colonialism; slavery and its afterlives; the American Revolution; the constitution of the United States; abolitionism; feminism; U.S. imperialism; the Civil Rights Movement, Indigenous rights movements, the Black Lives Matter movement; and the historical roots of the Trump presidency. The course will foreground an understanding of ongoing historiographical debates and methods of interpreting primary sources. |
