🌎 Upcoming FA2024 Course: ENGL2002: World Literature I

Course Description: In this course, students will explore World Literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read the likes of Sui Sin Far, Kyung-Sook Shin, Lu Xun, Chinua Achebe and Jorge Luis Borges, and examine the larger questions posed by these authors and the genres in which they write (we will look at magical realism, satire, realism, etc)—and just how widely the cultural contexts of these authors vary across time and space. We will read critical essays not just on the primary texts, but also on recent history and culture to understand the larger context that informs these themes and pushes these authors toward their respective genres.

Reading List: Albert Camus The Stranger, Kyung-sook Shin Please Look After Mom, Lu Xun “Diary of Madman,” Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal,” Mark Twain “Cannibalism in the Cars,” Sui Sin Far, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance," "The Inferior Woman," "Land of the Free," Marjane Satrapi Persepolis, Bessie Head When Rain Clouds Gather, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Jorge Lous Borges, “Death and the Compass,” Victoria Kielland, My Men.