The Radical Imagination

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This course addresses the ways which dominant narratives of U.S. national identity have been sustained by "social imaginaries" and the ways in which those narratives are challenged by the "radical imagination" in wide-ranging contexts: social and political, religious, literary, the arts, popular culture; all of which might overlap and inform one another at a given historical moment. Using case studies and drawing from a wide range of cultural artifacts, this course explores the radical imagination in United States history.