MEDITERRANEAN FICTION

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Cross-listed LANG 2244. This course will examine the issues of culture, nationalism, and empire as they are expressed in novels from the Mediterranean region in the twentieth century and today. The people around the shores of the Mediterranean are connected by that sea, and ideas travel the same routes as commerce. The tension between cosmopolitanism and nationalism, between looking outward and looking inward, will be explored in novels from different countries and cultures. Some of the authors, involved are Nobel prize-winners Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, and Ivo Andric, as well as Nikos Kazantzakis and Amos Oz. All of the works read for class have been translated into English.