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This module explores literature’s role in revolutionary times, and how literature creates a space in which dissident voices can find articulation. The module asks students to examine the relationship between literature and power, literature and momentous historical events, and literature and alternative futures. Students will be asked to place texts in historical context and to develop the ability to explore how literature can work with or against the grain of history. Case studies may include, but are not limited to, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, the 1960s, the Troubles.
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