LETTERATURA MULTIETNICA DEGLI STATI UNITI

Knowledge and Understanding: The course aims at expanding the study of canonical Angloamerican Literature by including authors of Native American, Afroamerican, Asian and Arab descent.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding: through lessons and guided readings, students will be able to approach the main literary texts of the period (1850 up to nowadays) by combining their literary knowledge with historical and cultural notions.

Making Judgement: thank to class readings and discussion students will be able to independently apply their skills and knowledge to the reading and comprehension of literary texts.

Communication Skills: by approaching the texts in their original form, students will be able to convey effectively what they have learned during the course and its side-activities.

Learning Skills: students will develop autonomous learning skills through class and lab work. That will improve their approach to learning, and it will be a useful skill in their future jobs.

Lessons and seminars (tutorials) Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Reading and analysis of literary texts pertaining to Angloamerican Culture and literature from the mid-19^th century up today, seen from a multiethnic perspective..

---Guido Fink et alii, Storia della letteratura americana: dai canti dei pellerossa a Philip Roth, Rizzoli, Milano 2013

---The Norton Anthology of American Literature, (voll. C,D,E), New York, 2008

--- Donatella Izzo, Giorgio Mariani (a cura di), America at Large. Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica, Shake, Milano 2004

--- Cristina Iuli e Paola Loreto, La letteratura degli Stati Uniti. Dal Rinascimento americano ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Roma 2017

--- R. Baritono, E. Vezzosi, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Carocci, Roma 2011

A detailed reading list will be provided during the course