[Englmajors] ENGL 281E added for Spring

[Sherry Laing]

The Department of English has added an addition section of ENGL 281, 
Intermediate Expository Writing, for Spring Quarter.  Registration is open 
beginning March 3.

ENGL 281E
TTh 11:30-1:20
Rivera (lysar at u.washington.edu
SLN: 9534

"Remembering to Forget."  This class is designed to sharpen and refine 
your ability to read, analyze, and write about literature.  The novels we 
will study this quarter bear deep investments in what critic George 
Lipsitz refers to as "counter-memory," or "a way of remembering and 
forgetting that starts with the local, the immediate, and the personal." 
Texts engaging in counter-memory return to the past to find "hidden 
histories" that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives. 
Privileging forms of narration that intentionally subordinate objective 
fact-finding to subjective renderings of past events, these 
counter-memories can be powerful sites of contestation and historical 
revision.  Texts include Gayl Jones's Corregidora; Leslie Marmon Silko'ss 
Ceremony; Art Spiegelman's Maus; and a course packet.