The course offers an overview of multiethnic and multicultural literature through a selective examination of authors, trends and historical contexts related to the United States of America. The literary production examined in the course describes a complex cultural and social experience in which writers continuously negotiate their own identity within the communities they belong to and the United States at large, thus exploring linguistic, racial, generational, gender and economic issues in a socio-historical context that has often evolved at a dramatically fast pace.
Curriculum
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Further study materials will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Fruizione: 21810392 CULTURE DEI PAESI DI LINGUA INGLESE in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 R A - Z ELIA ADRIANO
Programme
The course offers an overview of the impact of the digital revolution on the analysis of contemporary Anglophone literary texts. Through an interdisciplinary and multimedia approach, particular attention will be paid to the interrelationships between Black Music (Hip Hop and Techno) and African-American literature, in order to reconsider related socio-cultural phenomena and to reflect on the study of English in its linguistic varieties.Core Documentation
Adriano Elia, Serena I. Volpi, Blacknology. Black Literature, Culture, and Technology. Padova, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2025.Further study materials will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Attendance
Lecture attendance is not compulsory but is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The final exam is both written and oral. The Written Exam consists of a series of open-ended questions based on the syllabus, and will be followed by an Oral Exam, whose outcome may affect positively or negatively the grade of the Written Exam. teacher profile teaching materials
Further study materials will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Fruizione: 21810392 CULTURE DEI PAESI DI LINGUA INGLESE in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 R A - Z ELIA ADRIANO
Programme
The course offers an overview of the impact of the digital revolution on the analysis of contemporary Anglophone literary texts. Through an interdisciplinary and multimedia approach, particular attention will be paid to the interrelationships between Black Music (Hip Hop and Techno) and African-American literature, in order to reconsider related socio-cultural phenomena and to reflect on the study of English in its linguistic varieties.Core Documentation
Adriano Elia, Serena I. Volpi, Blacknology. Black Literature, Culture, and Technology. Padova, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2025.Further study materials will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Attendance
Lecture attendance is not compulsory but is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The final exam is both written and oral. The Written Exam consists of a series of open-ended questions based on the syllabus, and will be followed by an Oral Exam, whose outcome may affect positively or negatively the grade of the Written Exam.