Global Lit Social Change

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course will involve the reading and analysis of a handful of provocative novels from around the world with a focus on BRICS countries (specifically Brazil, India, China and South Africa). Most of these works are darkly comical and are loaded with social, cultural, and political commentary. These novels serve as springboards for discussion of class, gender, colonialism, art, culture and the capitalist economy. Paired with these award winning literary works will be several films that either resonate with the themes discussed in these books or contradict them, thus expanding the parameters of discourse on the countries in question.