The Politics of Narration

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In this course we will investigate the ways in which fiction writers through the twentieth century begin to question the "politics" of narration-that is, the ways in which narration in fiction models, replicates, and reinforces political systems in the real world. Reading short stories, novels and theoretical essays, we will further examine the ways in which writers, through what are ordinarily understood to be "aesthetic" experiments, reconfigured their narrative models in an effort to discover a more ethical, and sometimes more democratic politics (of narration). Prerequisites: CRW 5364 , CRW 5321 , and CRW 5365 with a grade of "B" or better. Departmental approval also required Restricted to major of Creative Writing; Restricted to level of GR.