ENGLISH 64N: Growing Up in America (Stanford Introductory Seminar) Taught by: Paula Moya Fall Quarter, 2009-2010 MW 1:15-3:05, Room: 80-115 | To what extent is it possible to describe an “American” experience? How are different people included in or excluded from the imagined community that is America? How does a person’s race, class, gender and sexuality affect his or her experience of belonging to this country? These are just some of the questions we will consider as we familiarize ourselves with the great diversity of childhood and young adult experiences of people who have grown up in America. We will read and discuss narratives (some fictional, some autobiographical) written by men and women, by urban, suburban, and rural Americans, and by Asian Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Latina/os, and European Americans. Throughout the course, we will explore how these writers, through different rhetorical and aesthetic strategies, write the “self” in literature. This course fulfills the following Major Requirements:
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