Empire of English: Issues in Comparative Anglophone Fiction
| Sept 12 |
Introduction |
I. "World Fiction" in the Age of "Global English"
| Sept 19 |
David Crystal, from English as a Global Language Lawrence Venuti, “Globalization,” from The Scandals of Translation Pascale Casanova, on “From Internationalism to Globalization,” from The World Republic of Letters Graham Huggan, "Prizing Otherness," from The Postcolonial Exotic |
| Sept 26 |
Keri Hulme, The Bone People Robin Truth Goodman, "A Time for Flying Horses," from World, Class, Woman |
| Oct 3 |
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Zygmunt Baumann, from Globalization: The Human Consequences |
| Oct 10 |
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Excerpts from The Rushdie Files |
| Oct 17 |
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien, “The Politics of Design,” from Weird English |
II. Fiction and the World Cinema: Two Versions of UK Vernacular in Diaspora
| Oct 24 |
Fall Break |
| Oct 31 |
Irvine
Welsh, Trainspotting Danny Boyle, Trainspotting Karen Lury, “Here and Then: Space, Place and Nostalgia in British Youth Cinema of the 1990s” from Murphy, ed,, British Cinema in the 1990s |
| Nov 7 |
Ken Loach, Riff Raff, Bread and Roses Michael Winterbottom, In This World |
III. The "New Cosmpolitanism" and Anglophone Fiction from Africa
| Nov 14 |
Ulrich Beck, “Cosmopolitan
Society and its Enemies” Timothy Brennan, from At Home in the World Bruce Robbins, “Comparative Cosmopolitanisms” from Cosmopolitics Rebecca Walkowitz, "Critical Cosmopolitanism and Modernist Narrative" from Cosmopolitan Style |
| Nov 21 |
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy Michael North, “Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy: The Politics of Rotten English” |
| Nov 28 |
Naruddin Farah, Maps Ngugi Wa Thiongo, from Decolonising the Mind Timothy Reis, “Mapping Identities,” from Predergast, ed., Debating World Literature Trinh T. Minh-ha, "Mother Talk” |
| Dec 5 |
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace Jacques Derrida, from On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness |