Contemporary Literature

Catalog description

This course focuses on literatures published post-1945 from one or more regions or cultures. Special emphasis will be placed on the ways in which national and international social and aesthetic phenomena have informed an increasingly diverse understanding of literary texts. Topics may include Cold War writing, literatures of nationhood, post colonialism, multiculturalism and its literary impact, or the ever-growing emphasis placed on generic hybridity, especially with the rise of visual and electronic media. May be repeated for credit when the emphasis changes.