Course details

Name: ENGL - 207

Title: WORLD LITERATURE: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
We will read some wonderful short stories, novels, poems and plays and watch some feature and documentary films from countries and cultures as diverse and rich as India, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Egypt, Palestine and The Caribbean among others. Our aim will be to see how, in the same culture, writers and other cultural artists, express at times, their love of certain "traditional" values and beliefs (themselves in flux over time), whilst some writers' works represent voices of resistance and challenge to dominant narratives.
We will ask: what are the historical and political conditions governing writers’ artistic responses and aesthetic choices?
Since this course is focused on work from the 20th— 21st centuries, the material studied will help students grasp a better understanding of the world we live in today, with close attention paid to issues of colonialism and its aftermath, and to the neoimperialist moment we live in today.

Last updated on 2016-03-25 By Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Post-1900 (1d)
• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• World Literature (TE 6a)

Teaching Faculty: Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)

Is course canceled: No