ENGL 12018 - Writing in the Age of Terror

Course Credit: 1
How does literature attempt-or decline-to make sense of violence perpetrated in the pursuit of political aims? How can literature help us navigate a world in which terror has changed the relationship between self and state, self and society? How do states and societies employ the language of terror to produce foreign others and shore up the nation? These questions will give us entry into a wide range of literature-including poetry, fiction, drama, and film-from Shakespeare to Zero Dark Thirty. Annually. [AH]