ENGL 514 The Invented Self in American Fiction

Looks at U.S. writers as authors of themselves and creators of their own personae in 20th and 21st-century U.S. fiction. Examines both the literary and societal implications of such self-fabrications in works by writers such as Philip Roth, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anne Tyler, Amy Bloom, Tom Perrotta, Junot Diaz, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Cunningham, Susana Moore, and Cristina Garcia.