ENGL3605 - OL - Global Literature & Film In Modern & Contemporary Literature

(LI) Literary Inquiry (DM) Diversity & Multiculturalism

Through study of a number of best-selling contemporary novels and their film adaptations, this course explores how an increasingly global world foregrounds questions of place and movement, particularly movement across previously defined cultural, geographic, and linguistic boundaries. The literary works in the course feature such themes as: exile, displacement, diaspora, terrorism, national and international war, bi-culturalism/multi-culturism, and transnationalism. Authors vary but include Chimamanda Adichie, Khaled Hosseini, and Bapsi Sidwha. Film titles include: The Kite Runner, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Beasts of No Nation. Ultimately, we will explore global literature and a literary theory of the global as a way of understanding how an increasingly interconnected world is impacting human experience politically, socially, culturally, economically.