2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LLC 211 - Books Without Borders

1 course unit
This course is a survey of world literature from a transnational perspective.  We will learn to closely read literary, visual and cultural texts from diverse cultures and geographies.  The study of world literature is a mode of cross-cultural reading that goes beyond the Western Canon without excluding it.  Many of our course texts emerge from and comment on contact zones and boundary spaces between cultures, places, and bodies.  We will ask how such texts interrupt, construct, and inspire lived experience.  Furthermore we will study relationships between texts to uncover how they reflect on, depend on, or revise one another.  We will also explore the process, politics, and implications of translation.  This course challenges students to learn the tools of textual analysis that make us receptive to form, genre, and historical context.  We will discuss how world literatures can shape who we are, what we value, and what we imagine for the future.  Class taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.



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