ENG 373 - Modern Documentary Poetry

How can poetry help us interrogate the politics of race, class, and gender, past and present? This survey of modern poetry will investigate how, when, and why poetry plays a role in national or international politics. Topics will vary and may include war poetry, documentary poetics, modernism and the politics of the “New Negro” and “New Woman,” the rise of Fascism and leftist political poetry of the 1930s, the Civil Rights and Black Arts movements of the 1960s, first wave feminism of the 1970s, and contemporary developments in queer poetry, eco-poetry, spoken word.

Satisfies the historical approaches requirement for the English major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Gender & Sexuality Studies major or minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
No prerequisites, but a willingness to speak, even when you are afraid, is required.