AMST-256 The Activist Imagination in America (3)

This course explores a range of texts, including fiction, poetry, memoir, film, art, pamphlet, and manifesto, that illustrate how writers imagined social justice in America. As authors and activists of the past found themselves working through the issues, concerns, and anxieties that dominated their particular historical moment, current readers make use of their texts for a similar kind of understanding, accountability, and demonstration in the present. In this course students actively engage literature with a critical eye toward the present. Crosslist: LIT-256 and WGSS-256.