This course focuses on American literature about work, especially blue-collar work, service work, and womens work. In reading working lives, we will also be reading national narratives about class, gender, race, and immigration. In diverse texts ranging from Walt Whitman to GishJen, we will ask:how are power and privilege represented in this literature? What are the underlying assumptions How have contemporary class divides taken root from our history? By looking at style, voice, figurative language, and structure, we will discover how writers strategically shape meaning across genres.
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