GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

How does literature both connect cultures across space and speak about what is specific to each culture? This course will explore a number of key developments and trends in 20th and 21st-century literature that enabled the ability of literary texts to reflect the cultures in which they were produced and have the capacity to travel across cultures. How did historical conditions (like the World Wars, the Cold War, colonialism, postcolonialism) and innovations in form, style, genre, and subject matter help make English literature a transnational literature? Any student, regardless of their major, background, or academic level, can register for this course.