CURSO : WORLD LITERATURES: LITERARY TEXTS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD TRADUCCION : LITERATURAS DEL MUNDO: TEXTOS LITERARIOS ESCRITOS EN INGLES ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO SIGLA : LET1315 CRÉDITOS : 10 MÓDULOS : REQUISITOS : SIN REQUISITOS CARÁCTER : MINIMO DISCIPLINA : LITERATURA I. DESCRIPTION This course examines world literatures from the mid 20th -century to the present. Our readings will range across genres (including fiction, poetry, and drama) and include the work of writers from multiple geographic locations--South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Scotland and Ireland. We will investigate how the themes of ethnicity, nationalism, religion, gender, and economics are represented in these literatures and how these texts interact with the contexts in which they were produced. II. OBJECTIVES General: 1. To provide a comprehensive introduction to literary traditions and key literary texts produced outside of, or in tension with, the traditional centers of political and economic power, and to analyze their representations of relevant issues in contemporary criticism, such as personal identity, subjectivity, nationalism, language and gender. Specifics: 1. To analyze key concepts and terminology related to the study of world literatures. 2. To explore the ideological assumptions implied in postcolonial perspectives and the general objections to postcolonial theory made by critics who view its application to `Third World' contexts with suspicious eyes. 3. To examine postcolonial strategies of decolonization proposed by different authors, theorists, and critics. III. CONTENTS 1. Introduction to World Literatures. 2. Landscape and Identity. 3. The Empire Writes Back. 4. The Pain of Others. 5. Nation Building. 6. Cultural Cringe. 7. White Native. IV. METHODOLOGY - Class discussion. - Lectures. - Close reading and analysis of fictional and theoretical texts in-class. PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIAD CATOLICA DE CHILE FACULTAD DE LETRAS / Enero 2014 1 V. EVALUATION - 4 Reading responses: 20% - Essay: 20% - Presentation: 10% - Midterm: 25% - Final Exam: 25% VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY Compulsory Readings: Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me Ultima. Berkeley, TQS Publications, 1972. Frame, Janet State of Siege. New York, G. Braziller, 1966. Hulme, Keri Bone People. New York, Penguin Books, 1986. Laurence, Margaret The Stone Angel. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1964. Phillips, A. A. A.A. Phillips on The Cultural Cringe. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2006. Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea. New York, Norton and Company, 1977. Rivera, Tomas Y no se lo trago la tierra. San Antonio, Arte Publico Press, 1995. Schonstein, Patricia Skyline. Cape Town, David Philip Publishers, 2000. Complementary Readings: Anaya, Rudolfo The Writer's Landscape: Epiphany in Landscape. Latin American Literary Review, 5 (10), 1977. Sontag, Susan Regarding the Pain of Others. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2003. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Can the Subaltern Speak? Nelson, C. & L. Grossberg (eds.). Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 271-313. PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIAD CATOLICA DE CHILE FACULTAD DE LETRAS / Enero 2014 2