CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE in Spring 2025 (CL3035)

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This course offers close engagement with recently translated fiction and poetry from around the globe. In addition to reading great contemporary writing, students are introduced to today’s new media landscape, which has taken on an increasingly important role in the promotion and evaluation of global literature. Units on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Course Master: 
CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE (CL3035)
Term: 
Spring 2025
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Monday, May 12, 2025 - 09:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. To examine the notion of "world literature" (origin and signification of the term)
  2. To read across a spectrum of translated titles recently published in English.
  3. To practice various forms of professional writing, including press copy and book reviews.
  4. To obtain a basic familiarity with the critical landscape for literature in translation (online and print)
  5. To discover emerging literary voices and cultures that are often under-represented in English.
  6. To acquire, when relevant, contextual information concerning specific historical history developments relevant to a text.
  7. To reinforce critical and close reading practices by a variety of means (oral presentation, professional writing exercises, response papers)

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
Sister Deborah
Scholastique Mukasonga
Archipelago
9781953861948
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
Hamish Hamilton
9780241600269
On the Calcultation of Volume
Solvej Balle
Faber
9780571383375
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
Fitzcarraldo
9781804271087
The Accidentals
NETTEL,GUADALUPE
Fitzcarraldo
9781804271476
The Book of Disappearance
Ibtisam Azem
And Other Stories
9781916751026

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
G-207
Thursday
10:35
11:55
G-207