Course Description

This course surveys and compares literature from around the world produced between 1650 and the present. This course emphasizes literature outside the Anglo-American tradition. Students have the opportunity to analyze and compare texts representing various genres from different cultural regions, including Africa, Asia,Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Through this crosscultural study of literature, students have the opportunity to engage in thinking critically about cultural diversity and related issues\u2014such as global migrations, international power dynamics, and transnational patterns of inequality\u2014in a world context.