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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Arts
Course Code other registration
Theme・Subtitle アメリカ文学とクィアネス(小説)
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Mon.4・6205
Credit 2
Course Number EAL3813
Language Others
Class Registration Method "Other" Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code AM113

【Course Objectives】

Through the intensive reading of literary texts, students will develop a personally/socially imaginative understanding of those who have different values and backgrounds from their own as well as enhance self-expression skills in both Japanese and English.

【Course Contents】

 This course highlights the writers who embody--or whose text addresses the issue of--sexual transgressions and attempt a close reading of their work. By the end of the course, students should be able to grasp the aesthetic as well as political implications of the ways in which sexual orientations and gender identities have been constructed and represented in American culture.
 In the first half of this course, we will focus on women writers who became popular in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. More specifically, we will attempt a close reading of short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, well known for her "Boston Marriage,"and Willa Cather, one of the major lesbian writers in the States, followed by a ghost story with homosexual overtones by Edith Wharton. In the latter half of the course, we will read Nella Larsen's Passing, a novel that explores the issues of race and sexuality in the era of the Harlem Renaissance.
 During class hours, assigned teams will distribute handouts for the class containing a summary and detailed linguistic explications of the assigned text. Every other week, they will also prepare English questions about interpretive possibilities of the assigned text, and class participants will answer these questions through written English statements. Next, students will compare answers with their fellow classmates through English group discussions before taking part in a class debate conducted in Japanese. Other class activities include a reading of related critical essays as well as a comparison between the original text and its film adaptation. English compositions will be returned to each student the following week with the instructor's comments and corrections.

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