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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper division literature majors. Study of postmodern novel as it developed out of modernism. Postmodernism defined in three different ways - philosophically, scientifically, and economically. Emphasis on relationship of recent novels to theories of structuralism and poststructuralism. Readings include authors such as Borges, Beckett, Nabokov, Pynchon, Fuentes, Grass, B ll, and Calvino. Concurrently scheduled with course C272. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Exploration of intersection between concepts of postmodernism and Third World culture and politics, including topics such as post-Marxism and revolution; historical thought; gender, ethnicity, imperialism, and their relationship to cultural politics; and recent Latin American literary production. Concurrently scheduled with course C273. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Survey of significant issues in history of 20th-century Indian literature and culture. Great works of modern Indian culture by such figures as Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and U.R. Anantha Murthy, including novels, short stories, poetry, films, music, and works in cultural criticism and historical scholarship. Central and defining issue for 20th-century Indian culture is experience of British colonial rule and massive cultural and material changes that accompanied it. Exploration of manner in which literature and culture have developed in interaction with powerful social forces, such as struggle for national independence from Britain under leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and expansion of Indian diaspora. Concurrently scheduled with course C278. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. What is it we do when we try to understand words, habits, gestures, and beliefs not our own Do we understand something foreign to us by immersing ourselves in it or by standing apart Does ability to understand something foreign imply taking universal standpoint Can we make judgments about beliefs other than our own Questions of cultural interpretation have long history in both Western and non-Western cultures. Discussion of history of questions about cross-cultural interpretation and comparative interpretation of cultures in both comparative literature and cultural anthropology. Reading of some very complex and influential works by such writers as Claude Lévi- Strauss, Amitav Ghosh, James Clifford, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Erich Auerbach. Concurrently scheduled with course C287. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Study of literary culture of ancient Israel through examination of principal compositional strategies of Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (read in translation). P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Arabic not required. Since its appearance in Europe in 1704, Thousand and One Nights is most well-known work of Arabic literature in West. Examination of cycle of tales more commonly known as Arabian Nights, including history of its translation, contemporary oral performances of tales in Arabic-speaking world, literary emergence of vernacular language in relation to classical Arabic, and Western appropriations of tales in music, film, and novels (Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Barth, Poe, and Walt Disney). P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Arabic not required. Introduction to study of living oral traditions of troubadours, storytellers, oral poets, and performers in Arabic-speaking Middle East. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: History M182D or 183A or 183B. Investigation of how Holocaust informs variety of literary and cinema works and raises wide range of aesthetic and moral questions. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Comprehensive introduction to Korean American literature, with emphasis on Korean American experience, problems of gender, race, and class, nationalism, generational relationships, and impact of traditional Korean culture on Korean American literature. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Asian American Studies M130B and Chinese M153.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Chinese not required. In-depth look at Chinese immigrant experience by reading literature and watching films. Theories of diaspora, gender, and race to inform thinking and discussion of relevant issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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