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One way of looking at the history of the United States is to regard it as a gigantic property transaction. Indigenous societies were cheated and forced off their land while settler colonial resource extraction effected an ecological deterioration of the soil and its human and nonhuman inhabitants. More recently, in the period of the post-subprime mortgage crisis, of conflicts over pipelines and of yearly expanding wildfires, the loss of liveable space due to a toxic, property-oriented and wasteful economy is the cause of much social conflict. In this class we will address some literary responses to this process of dispossession.
Students are required to purchase a Reader and the following novels:
- James Fenimore Cooper (1823). The Pioneers. Repr. Penguin, 1988. ISBN-13: 978-0140390070
- Louise Erdrich (2017). The Round House. Corsair. ISBN-13: 978-1472108142
- Barbara Kingsolver (2019). Unsheltered. Faber and Faber. ISBN-13: 978-0571347032
- Sara Pennypacker (2020). Here in the Real World. Harper Collins. ISBN-13: 978-0008371692
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