Course details

Name: ENGL - 117

Title: WORLD LIT: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
This course offers an introductory survey of literature written during and about globalization, mainly by writers from areas of the world that were colonized by the empires of Europe and the US, and which subsequently achieved political independence in the postcolonial era.

POSSIBLE texts will include: Naipaul, Miguel Street; Kincaid, Autobiography of My Mother; Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Farah, Sweet and Sour Millk; Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions; Adichie, Purple Hibiscus; Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians; Rushdie, Satanic Verses; Roy, The God of Small Things; Desai, Clear Light of Day; Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust.

Last updated on 2018-04-27 By Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• World Literature (TE 6a)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No