Graduate School of Humanities Department of Languages and Literature Western Literature Field English Linguistics & Literature Speciality (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School:

American Culture (Seminar II) American Culture (Seminar II) Sub Title　 Post War American Lit. 外国人教師 Ted CLONTZ

Numbering Code: Course Code: 2016 FallTerm weekly Thu4 Hakozaki Classroom E科目 (English, English)

Course Overview

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is one of the most important American novels of the 20th century. It not only gives an original literary view of race and culture in America, it also makes a statement about modern identity that crosses racial divides, and represents a bridge between modernism and postmodernism. In class, we will look at each of these elements in studying this novel. For background, we will be reading excerpts of works by W.E.B. DuBois and others to set the context.

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: 2016/3/14 (21:09) 〔Lectures, close reading, analysis and discussion.〕