Global Literature: Contemporary Novels Around the World
Approaches contemporary literary fiction as an essential requirement for understanding today's world. Focuses on novels from authors of diverse backgrounds, countries, and languages that address pressing issues of our time: legacies of colonialism, refugee crises and global migration, environmental/climate catastrophe, and questions of gender, class, and racial identities. Readings in English.
This course is the same as JSIS B 303, which carries A&H and Div distribution credit. There are many more seats (40) in JSIS B 303, so be sure to check out that listing if the GLITS 313 listing fills up.
Contact the instructor with any questions: Prof. Sasha Senderovich, senderov@uw.edu
The reading list for the course and broad topics, by which this list is arranged, looks as follows:
WORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection (trans. from Italian [Italy] by Sophie Hughes)
- Beatriz Serrano, Discontent (trans. from Spanish [Spain] by Mara Faye Lethem)
GLOBAL FAMILIES / GLOBAL SECRETS
- Fatma Aydemir, Djinns (trans. from German [Germany] by Jon Cho-Polizzi)
- Tiffany Tsao, The Majesties (English [Australia])
ECHOES OF THE PAST: HISTORY, MEMORY, TRAUMA
- Itamar Vierra Junior, Crooked Plow (trans. from Portugese [Brazil] by Johnny Lorenz)
- Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone (trans. from Spanish [Argentina] by Natasha Wimmer)
- Adania Shibli, Minor Detail (trans. from Arabic [Palestine] by Elizabeth Jaquette)
DYSTOPIAS TODAY: VISIONS OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE
- Artem Chapeye, The Weathering (trans. from Ukrainian [Ukraine] by Daisy Gibbons)
- Gary Shteyngart, Vera, or Faith (English [United States])