English · Boston College
This section of Literature Core will explore how literary texts bear witness to historical events and address social issues. Through the study of poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography, we will examine how writers have used a variety of literary genres and forms to transform traumatic memories and the experiences of displacement and oppression into art. Topics include slavery and the Holocaust. Texts may include Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Tommy Orange's There There, and The Laramie Project.
