Contemporary Global Fiction

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In this course, students will read, interpret, discuss and write about novels and short stories written in English in the past ten years by writers originally from Europe, Africa, South Asia, East Asia and the Caribbean. While these works represent the "large stories" like economic globalization, migration, and ecological change, they are crafted around the "small stories" of love, longing, friendship and family. We will talk about both kinds of narratives, tracing the entanglements of one in the other. Prerequisites: 76-101 or 76-102 or ( 76-106 and 76-107 ) or ( 76-106 and 76-108 ) or ( 76-108 and 76-107 )