Reading and experiencing multicultural literature will be a stimulating, intriguing, and satisfying basis for a literature course. Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native, and White Americans will all be numerical minorities. As historians, sociologists, and writers continue to remind us, the blood of the whole world already flows through America as a result of successive waves of immigration. America also includes indigenous peoples with their own nations and cultures. Literature both reflects the culture and creates it.
Creative endeavor can make universal the experiences of individuals.
Because this is a literature course, we will also consider and try to understand the elements of writing that the authors choose to convey experience and have an impact on the reader. Copyright 2000 by Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.