ENGL 22500 - Literature, Inequality, And Injustice

This course introduces students to literature addressing inequality and social justice. Questions will include: What is social justice? How do literary works reproduce or resist dominant ideologies? How does literature provide tools to map social and economic formations? What role have literary works played in emancipatory and egalitarian political movements? Readings and comparison of these texts will help examine how literature maintains a variety of communities.

Cr. 3.