EN 580 - Seminar in World Literature

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

Credits: 4
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 4-0-0
Graded: A/F

Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval
Co-requisites: None

Major trends in world literature as a field of investigation distinct from recent and contemporary English and American literature, explored in a sustained way through texts translated from non-Western languages and/or composed outside Europe and North America. Concentration on literature(s) frequently subordinated to dominant First-World concerns. Works from one of the following marginalized spaces provide the exclusive focus of this introduction to global perspectives: Africa, Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Middle East.