"Culture americane: questioni storiche e sociali".
Il corso intende affrontare i diversi aspetti di natura storica e sociale che caratterizzano la cultura degli Stati Uniti d'America.

Il programma prevede la discussione dei seguenti aspetti caratterizzanti la cultura americana attraverso lo studio dei seguenti testi storico-letterari:

The US and American Identity: Images, Values, Ideas
- Hector de Crèvecoeur, “What Is an American?” (1782)
- Walt Whitman, “Preface” to Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Theodore Roosevelt, from American Ideals: True Americanism (1897)

The Frontier: History and Myth
- Frederick Jackson Turner, from “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
- Bret Harte, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1868)
- Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898)
- John Steinbeck, “The Leader of the People” (1938)

Gender and Class: Women in American Cultural History
- Seneca Falls Convention, “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Masculine Literature (1910)
- Kate Chopin, “A Respectable Woman” (1894)

Race and Ethnicity: African Americans
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
- Charles W. Chesnutt, from “The Future American” (1900)
- Langston Hughes, from “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926)
- Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” (1963)

Race and Ethnicity: Native Americans
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” (1833)
- Leslie Marmon Silko, “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination” (1986)
- Joy Harjo, from “One Whole Voice” (2012); “My House is the Red Earth” (1989), “Eagle Poem” (1990), “An American Sunrise” (2017)

Migration: The Twentieth Century
- Theodore Dreiser, “Old Rogaum and His Theresa” (1901)
- Maxine Hong Kingston, from The Woman Warrior: No Name Woman (1976)