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Abigail: Modern Fiction: a Look at Personal Identity and What Shapes it (533)

To me, modern fiction is all about personal identity. Before the postmodern movement, narratives were pretty straight forward (for the most part). There was good and evil, everyone fit into their respective gender roles, etc. The modern world, luckily for us, is not like that. Nothing is black and white, everything is both good and evil, and we have to deal with that as individuals. Writers tend to do a lot of experimentation. Sometimes this comes as narrative devices and overall plot-structure. Sometimes it comes as an author throwing someone into a situation that is completely unlike anything they could have previously foreseen (like immigration stories, or modern war stories).

Modern fiction picks at how we express ourselves, and why. With modern fiction comes African American literature, LGBTQ literature, feminist literature, and all the good things that come from hearing someone else’s narrative. In my class, we will look at the ways race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion shape a person’s identity. This, of course, is no easy task. If we could answer how and why these things shape us, we wouldn’t need art, sociology, anthropology, history, or most other Liberal Arts. But, obviously, we do.

I’m going ahead and stealing five pieces from Ms. Jennifer’s syllabus: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao because it is a unique immigrant story that incorporates sex as well as nationality and race, Welcome to Braggsville because of its use of stereotypes, “Lust” for a similar reason, Giovanni’s Room as a way to connect nationality and sexuality, and “Good Country People,” since the way we personally identify is never quite the same as the way others see us.

For traditional texts, I stuck to things I had read before. With The Great Gatsby, we’ll talk about love, gender, and what it means when someone feels ownership towards someone else. We well also read The Catcher in the Rye and talk about who the hell Holden Caulfield is, 1984 and the way sexuality and control influence relationships, Life of Pi as an insight into religion and human-animal relationships, and “Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets” to look at race, gender, and prejudice.

For my non-traditional texts, I chose a mixture of photographs and film. The class will watch Black Swan to study gender, sexuality, and the balance between the id, ego, and superego. We will also watch the first episode of Black Mirror’s season 2: Be Right Back to compare our social media identities and those that we portray in person. Both seasons of Stranger Things will be viewed to pick apart gender roles and how secrets affect us. We will also pick apart Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres for gender, sexuality, and the idea of Orientalism. Finally, we will look at multiple Irving Penn portraits, those of Salvador Dali, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, Isabella Rossellini, Audrey Hepburn, and the Scarred Dahomey Girl. With these portraits, we will look at gender, race, and occupation.

Organizing this class has really made me want to teach it, even though I don’t ever want to teach! Perhaps I’ll keep this work in mind when I am a grad student and might have the opportunity to build a literature course for undergrads.

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