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Course description

How does literature help readers and writers imagine their place in the world, and how do the texts circulate around the globe? This course focuses on literature in English that expands the Euro-American canon and works with scales of reading and writing beyond the nation. We will read a variety of texts from different cultures and historical periods that explore how literature functions globally. You will learn about transnational, world, and planetary scales of literary analysis; think about travel and mobility; and explore the vibrant postcolonial and decolonial literary movements that challenged European imperial expansion. Writers may include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Isabella Bird, J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Dave Eggers, Olaudah Equiano, Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Mansfield, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Zadie Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Alexis Wright.

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