Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AREA STUDIES: GLOBAL FICTIONS ***** This course examines narrative fiction that represents various attempts to grasp the global-- as an idea, a cognitive map, a pattern of movement, a series of events, a montage of images, etc. We will read novels alongside a number of essays on literary and cultural theory, especially work that connects the role of narratives, language and representation to broader debates about capitalism, transnational culture, immigration, slavery, revolution and international feminism. The course will have a historical as well as a broad geographical reach and may include works by Michael Ondaatje, Don Delillo, Barbara Kingsolver, Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah, Ahdaf Soueif and Michelle Cliff.