Postmodern Literature

3 Credits

Explore the origins and ongoing development of postmodern literature. Learn about the "postmodern condition," such as the collapse of identity, the erasure of cultural and aesthetic boundaries, and the dissolution of life into textuality. Explore art that has come in the wake of postmodernism and has attempted to move beyond it. Readings might include novels and other genres in varied media by Samuel Beckett, Art Spiegelman, Julian Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Ruth Ozeki, Zadie Smith, and others.