Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** This course includes a broad survey of postcolonial theories starting with Edward Said and including Homi Bhabha, Leela Gandhi, Gayatri Spivak, Michael Hechter, Helen Tiffin and others. The course is based on Ewa M. Thompson's "Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism" published by Greenwood in 2000. Literary readings include Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"; Alexander Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman" and "Journey to Arzum"; Valentine Rasputin's "Live, Remember" and other stories; Anatoly Rybakov's "Children of the Arbat" ; Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward"; Ludmila Petrushevskaya's "Night," Tatiana Tolstaia's "Sleepwalker in a Fog"; and Valeiya Novodvorskaya's essays. ***** Also offered as SLAV 331. Repeatable for Credit.