Topics in Contemporary Fiction

CAS EN 347

May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Spring 2016: Post-1990 Anglophone Literature. Stories of people who get ahead from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, China, Malaysia, and elsewhere. Set in the era of globalization and free markets, we compare tales of ambition, disappointment, solidarity, disaffection. Themes of gender, class, and race explored.