Spring 2024 Comparative Literature: English GR6778 section 001

Reading Political Fiction

Call Number 14873
Day & Time
Location
W 6:10pm-8:00pm
201 80 Claremont Ave
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Gayatri C Spivak
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course will attempt to confront the question of political fiction in its broadest scope by reading texts at the two ends of the spectrum: the majesty of W.E.B Du Bois's epic style in his final fiction: the Black Flame Trilogy; and the disseminated incoherence reactive to extreme violence in Diamela Eltit's The Fourth World, for which we will have her friend Jean Franco's The Rise and Fall of the Lettered City as critical support.  Together, we will also try to think of our reading practice as required by the texts, rather than a means to control them.  Class presentations will be focused on documentary research.  The final colloquium will be focused on attracting the imaginative attention of classmates as audience.

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 5 students (18 max) as of 9:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject Comparative Literature: English
Number GR6778
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Application required.
Section key 20241CLEN6778G001