Course details

Name: ENLT - 206

Title: WORLD LITERATURE: COMING OF AGE

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
In this course students will be exposed to literature from around the world, with a particular focus on "non-western" cultural texts to help set up comparisons and contrast with what they think they know about their "own" cultural referents. We will ask what "coming of age" as a concept signifies, and how both individuals as well as cultures and nations might "come of age."
Group provocations,one-page individual weekly response papers, a midterm and a final essay-style exam will be required.

Examples of novels, memoirs and films we will read/view from around the world are:
Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Rachlin, Nahid. Persian Girls: A Memoir.
Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero.
Salih, Tayyeb. Season of Migration to the North.

Films:

Kandahar, and Afghan Women
Sugar-Cane Alley
Salaam Bombay

Last updated on 2012-04-10 By Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• International Issues (3a)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Afzal-Khan Fawzia (khanf)

Is course canceled: No