ENGL 312Globality and Literature
This course examines contemporary fiction that reflects on globality and globalization, most often from contexts where planetary crisis registers as linguistic or narrative disturbance: war, empire, economic underdevelopment, state repression, diaspora, immigration, or major historical shifts. Anglophone writings will be read alongside works in translation to track the common-or uncommon-conditions of humanity that results from economic and political globalization. The course pays special attention to questions of violence and justice, the principal preoccupations of human rights discourse.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “ENGL 15 or ENGL 15A or ENGL 15S or ENGL 15E or ESL 15 or ENGL 30H or ENGL 30T or ( ENGL 137H and ENGL 138T )”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (1 program).
Required in (2)
- Creative Writing, B.F.A.
- English, B.A. (Behrend)