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LIT 295 - Special Topics in Literature in Translation


FDR: HL
Credits: 3-4


Prerequisites: Completion of FW requirement. A selected topic focusing on a particular author, genre, motif or period in translation. The specific topic is determined by the interests of the individual instructor. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Spring 2019, LIT 295-01: Literary Reflections on National Socialism (3). Prerequisite: Completion of FDR FW requirement. The literature of post World War II Germany that reflects on and attempts to come to terms with the atrocities of the Nazi regime. Readings, discussion, and writing in English. (HL). Crockett.

Spring 2019, LIT 295-03: Topic: The African Child-Soldier (3). Prerequisite: Completion of FDR FW requirement. Who is a child? Who is a child-soldier? Did the child have a childhood in a home and family before becoming a soldier? What is childhood? How does the definition of childhood (legal or otherwise) jibe with the child’s own perception or understanding of his/her place in society? Does s/he return home, and to a family after combat? Are home and family still the same? This course engages these and other questions as they relate to the representation of the child-soldier in African literary texts and in film. In so doing, we interrogate the larger question of agency, victimhood, and the human capacity to transcend adversity, focusing specifically on how the child (or child-soldier) negotiates the meandering road upon which s/he has been thrusted by people and circumstances, with no properly functioning compass. (HL) Kamara.

Fall 2018, LIT 295B-01: Arabic Literature in Translation: The Arab Spring in Literature and Media (3). Prerequisites: Completion of FW requirement. The year 2011 marked the moment in which demonstrations and sit-ins against tyranny erupted simultaneously throughout the Arab World. Revolutionaries, mostly under the age of 30, demanded freedom of speech, an end to corruption, and the establishment of democratic states. These uprisings, called The Arab Spring, left a strong footprint on Arabic literature and media. This course introduces students to political, social, and economic issues in the Arab World through different literary genres (such as novels and short stories, political satire, movies, music, poetry and social media) that reflect the aspirations, disappointments, and concerns of the Arabs before, during, and after the revolutions. (HL). Hala Abdelmobdy.

 




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