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Programa

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.




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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.




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