LWP 2590Literature of New York City

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No other city in America (or perhaps the world) has fired the literary imagination more than New York. We will look at the incredible diversity of this literature, from immigrant narratives and migration tales to essays, comic strips, and short stories. We will also investigate what it is about New York that provokes such interest among writers. What is New York a metaphor for--power, prestige, poverty, diversity, American exceptionalism? Why does the rest of the country continue to care about New York stories?