Letteratura Anglo-Americana 2 – Padova

Argomenti del programma: Weird English? English, National Identity and the Right to Language in the Culture and Literature of the United States The contemporary debate on language in the US is not about language itself, but rather about national identity. The question is not "what is the national language of America?" but «who are we as Americans.» As Ronald Schmidt writes in his book on the connections between language policy and identity…

Argomenti del programma: “Land of Freedom? The Problem of the Color Line in the United States from 1619 to Black Lives Matter” In 1903 African American sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois prophetically stated in The Souls of Black Folk: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” More than one hundred years later racism is still deeply entrenched in the Western world, and even more in the United…