Instructor: Kelly Mee Rich
Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: Sever 102
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What stories do we tell to make sense of our world? This course serves as an introduction to contemporary fiction in English, as well as a survey of approaches to reading postcolonial and transnational literatures. Along the way, we will consider issues of migration, cosmopolitanism and globalization, human rights, racial and sexual politics, and international kinship. Authors will most likely include Teju Cole, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica Hagedorn, Jamaica Kincaid, Katie Kitamura, Michael Ondaatje, Ruth Ozeki, Arundhati Roy, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, and Monique Truong. This class is part lecture, part discussion. No previous experience in English Department courses is required.
This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.