Dpto Literatura

Ciencias Sociales

In a letter to his son, Sherwood Anderson aptly summarized the consequences of the World War I: ¿I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up  more than the bodies of men...It blew ideas away¿. Although the United States emerged as a victor from that first global conflict, the prevailing feeling in the aftermath of the war was one of loss, disillusionment, and even cynicism. What had been lost, in the eyes of many, was the American Dream itself, with its promise of endless opportunities and constant progress. But in the midst of such widespread pessimism, there began one of the most fascinating and exciting periods in literature and the arts. The ¿Roaring Twenties¿ or the ¿Jazz Age¿, as F. Scott Fitzgerald called it, was an era of contradictions and seemingly boundless creativity. On the one hand, it was the era of Prohibition and the persecution of leftists, anarchists, and immigrants; while, on the other hand, it marked the beginning of women¿s liberation, of a revolt against Puritan, middle-class values, and of a different appreciation of Black cultural expressions. It was the age of ¿modernism¿ in literature and the arts- an age of experimentation in pursuit of novel forms in which to express a new reality.
Through the analysis of certain representative works of the American Literature of the Twenties, the course will not only provide an understanding of their artistic significance, but also demonstrate their current relevance as literary responses to many issues which are still at stake in the contemporary world.

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