Text Box: Modern Poetry Professor Ming-Qian Ma MWF 10:00 - 10:50 Reg. No. 184078 Text Box: 349 Text Box: Designed as a survey class, English 349 is an introduction to modern poetry, with an emphasis on the American Poetry scene in the Twentieth-Century. Following a chronological approach, the class will cover the period from the so-called High Modernism to the present, studying the major poetic movements such as Imagism, the Objectivist Movement, The Fugitive Movement, the Confessional School, the New York School, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Movement, the Language Movement, and others. The overarching topic of our critical inquiry is subject/subjectivity/voice in relation to language, as is perceived and approached by diverse poetic praxes in their corresponding socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. The class will focus on close reading of selected poets representing each poetic movement in conjunction with selected criticisms by these poets. The primary text for the class: The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition. Supplementary readings in poetry and criticisms by the poets on reserve. Course requirements include regular attendance, active participation in class discussions, unit response papers, and a final paper. This course satisfies a later literature requirement. Text Box: Studies in Black American Literature Professor Hershini Young TTh 9:30 - 10:50 Reg. No. 028671 Text Box: 366 Text Box: The Politics of Embodiment: This class will focus on how race operates both within society at large as well as within various black communities. Using novels such as Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and essays by writers like Fanon, we will look at how bodies are always read and reconstituted to create palimpsestic narratives that supposedly provide evidence of race. What happens when the evidence speaks against narrow constructs of race? Using the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson as one of our starting points, we will pay close attention to the politics of skin color that testify against race as an impermeable category of identity. To this end, we will also read narratives and essays such as The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte, Nella Larsen’s Passing, Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia. This class thus will explore the problematics of embodiment, foregrounding the discussion on how one inhabits a body that is always supposedly a legible text. This course satisfies a later literature requirement.