ENGL 371 - English-Language Writing in the Era of Globalization

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Trinity College

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Five centuries of European colonization spread the European languages across the planet. English is now virtually our global lingua franca. With immigration, global mass media and the internet blurring borders and ideas of national and cultural identity as never before, it is obvious that the "borders" between national literatures are blurring as well. This class will study the work of contemporary writers from around the world-Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Oceania- who, sometimes because it is their first language and sometimes as a matter of (anguished) choice, write in English, often in order to depict worlds that can seem alien to that language. Some of these writers are immigrants to England or the United States whose works express bi-national, bi-cultural or bilingual sensibilities; some are firmly rooted in one particular place; some seem determined to free themselves from specific national or cultural contexts. The writers whose work we will study will be drawn from the following: Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Solinka, J.M. Coetzee, Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean Rhys, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Flanagan, Alma Guillermo Prieto, Monica Ali, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat and Monica Truang. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contex 1.00 units, Lecture

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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