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Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature

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• Global Literature: Reading New Worlds

COMPLIT 49
Global Literature: Reading New Worlds

5 units
Course Dates: June 24 - August 17, 2013
Time: see http://explorecourses.stanford.edu

It is a given that today's world is increasingly networked. We are connected to a wider spectrum of people and places than ever before, in multiple ways. Our economic, political, technological, financial, cultural, ecological worlds seem blended into one. And yet amidst all that we seem to have in common, we also have sometimes very different ways of understanding those connections, both as individuals and as members of different national communities. In this course, we will learn how great works of literature help us not only imagine those connections between people and between nations as they have been produced historically and as they exist today, but also to see how literature helps us imagine the future. We will read novels from various locales, explore the cultures and histories from which they emerged, and link them together in a conversation. Works include: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide; Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah; Ondatjee, The English Patient; Ibrahim Al-Koni, The Bleeding of the Stone.

Notes: This course is offered as part of the Stanford Summer Intensive Studies in Human Rights or Global Management, and qualifies toward the Certificate of Completion in Human Rights or Global Management.

Syllabus:

• COMPLIT 49 Syllabus 2012