Course details
Name: ENGL - 117
Title: WORLD LITERATURE: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE
Section: 04
Semester: Spring - 2018
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, whilst at other times we can glimpse voices of resistance and change in their works.
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.
Examples of Texts:
Tayyeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (novel)
Jamaica Kincaid Lucy (novel)
Ismat Chughtai The Quilt and Other Stories (short stories)
Euzhan Palcy Sugar-Cane Alley (feature film)
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner (novel)
Nawal el Saadawi Woman at Point Zero (novel)
Youssef el Giundi Ten Acrobats in a Leap of Faith (play)
Last updated on 2017-11-13 By
Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)
Schedule: Thursday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- International Issues (3a)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)
Is course canceled: No