HON 393 - Tricksters and Cosmopolitans

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course explores U.S. narrative fiction in the twentieth century, approaching the figures of tricksters and cosmopolitans within the literary works and in the process of literary production. Writers include Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, Nella Larsen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Philip Roth, Timothy Yu, and Edwidge Danticat. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits