ENGL 285 H01 20396

EngLit, Humanities, AIU

Special topics in American literature exemplifying persistent themes of American culture. May be repeated for credit. Content varies by title and semester. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent. FS: 11/04/2015. CL: 2020.

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This course will read contemporary literature for the way it registers and is implicated in global forces and histories. Reading novels from across the world, our inquiry will focus on the literary representation of several interrelated phenomena: imperialism, capitalism, climate change, migration, diaspora, and the ways memory reconciles, fails, or creates our relationship to globalization. And we will consider how literary texts play an active role, as the repositories of narrative, as the agents of linguistic power, and as commodities that circulate in markets, in the constitution of our globalized world.