Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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4 | Fall 2014 | Saha, Poulomi
Saha, Poulomi |
TTh 9:30-11 | 166 Barrows | World Literature Special Topics |
Boo, Katherine: Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Buekes, Lauren: Zoo City; Cole, Teju: Open City; Mpe, Phaswane: Welcome to Our Hillbrow; Rushdie, Salman: The Moor's Last Sigh; Smith, Zadie: White Teeth; Theroux, Paul: Kowloon Tong
Globalization has given rise to a new kind of urban space, a nexus where the networks of capital, labor, and bodies meet: the global city. This course, a survey of contemporary Anglophone literature, considers the narratives--fictional and otherwise--that live in those cities, the stories those cities give birth to. Our itinerary will take us to five global cities: New York, London, Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Hong Kong. At each stop we will consider representations of these cities and their inhabitants from above and from below, from theories of transnational capital to narratives of the dispossessed. Are these cities sites of interconnection and aspiration, or do they indicate a world increasingly unequal and divided? How do the local and the foreign intersect in these global urban spaces? What do they tell us about globalization, its histories, and the literary and cultural forms it now takes?
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/2 | Special Topics: Alfred Hitchcock |
Bader, Julia
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Comedy & Violence |
Flynn, Catherine
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166/2 | Special Topics: Romantic Science |
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
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166/3 | Special Topics: Classical & Renaissance Drama |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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166/4 | Special Topics: Marxism & Literature |
Lye, Colleen
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166/5 | Special Topics: Emily Dickinson |
Shoptaw, John
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166/6 | Special Topics: Speculative Fiction |
Jones, Donna V.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Speculative Fictions, Possible Futures |
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
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166/2 | Special Topics: Games of Thrones, Medieval to Modern |
Liu, Aileen
Strub, Spencer |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/3 | Special Topics: Black Science Fiction |
Serpell, C. Namwali
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166/4 | Special Topics: Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice |
Giscombe, Cecil S.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Marxism and Literature |
Lye, Colleen
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166/2 | Special Topics: Studies in Literature and Environment (Shelter and Weather) |
Francois, Anne-Lise
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166/3 | Special Topics: Slavery and Conspiracy |
Wagner, Bryan
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166/4 | Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film |
Goble, Mark
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166/5 | Special Topics: Modern Irish Literature |
Falci, Eric
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/1 | Special Topics: Aesthetics and the Environment in the Eighteenth Century |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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166/2 | Special Topics: Vladimir Nabokov | Naiman, Eric |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/2 | Special Topics: Elizabethan Renaissance: Art, Culture, and Visuality | Honig, Elizabeth |