ENGL 249 Contemporary Global Fiction

Prerequisite: Completion of English Composition Core or permission of instructor

This course will explore a set of contemporary novels drawn from around the world. Our texts will raise questions about identities, relationships, memories, communities, movements, and spaces. In addition to reflecting on representations of individuals and collectivities, our course will explore the impress of the past in our shared present. The class will emphasize the ethical and political necessity of thinking carefully, critically, and globally about peoples, places, and cultures. We will make consistent efforts to contextualize and historicize, not only the production of the texts themselves but the fictional worlds depicted in their pages. In aesthetic terms, our contact with experiments in fictional form will provide opportunities to wrestle with the complicated entanglement of manner and matter in the dynamic and diverse field of contemporary global fiction.

Credits

3.0

Core

Developing Informed Viewpoints

Offered

Fall and Spring as Needed