EN 430 Literature and Journalism in America (Fall: 3)
This is an upper-division elective that examines the development of mainstream
and alternative American journalism over the last eighty years, with a special
focus on the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. We will examine
the border areas and conflicts between American nonfiction and news reporting
in four areas: reporting on crime, the underclass, and transnational urban
spaces; war and foreign correspondence; the New (and newer) journalism;
and memoir. Our subject will be the interdependence of narrative forms and
the social conditions they address.
Christopher Wilson
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