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LITERATURE

LIT-367

Topics in World Literature (3)

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in a wide range of literature from around the world. Meets with LIT-667. Usually offered every year.

LIT-367

001

LITERATURE

FALL 2013

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics in World Literature (3)

Love and Revolution: Modern Chinese Literature

This course investigates how themes of love and revolution converge in twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature. Through short stories, graphic novels, martial art novels, and online literature, the class discusses issues including romance and nation-building, intimacy and revolt, queer diasporas and sexual politics of globalization.

LIT-367

002

LITERATURE

FALL 2013

Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics in World Literature (3)

Postcolonial Crime Fiction

This course explores crime fiction and contemporary cinema from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The class discusses how social problems such as corruption, urbanization, failed democracy, and poverty lead to certain types of crimes and certain types of stories about those crimes, for instance, why fiction from the Global South so often takes the criminal's point of view and rarely allows readers to empathize with police or detectives. In addition, ethical issues such as justice, revenge, and forgiveness are also explored to try to understand how they function in particular social and cultural contexts.