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JSIS 478 E / C LIT 496 THE GLOBAL NOVEL

Winter 2022, MW 2:30--4:20; I&S (JSIS 478) and VLPA (C LIT 496); Prof. Senderovich

Note: this course is not open to Access students; this is a seminar for undergraduates only.

senderov@uw.edu

The draft of the course syllabus is here: Global Literature syllabus--Winter 2022.pdf

Approaches contemporary literary fiction as an essential requirement for understanding today's world. Focuses on short novels by authors from diverse backgrounds, countries, and languages that tackle some of the pressing issues of our time: legacies of colonialism, refugee crises and global migration, environmental / climate catastrophe, as well as questions of gender, class, and racial identities around the world. Readings in English.

The reading list for Winter 2022 includes the following titles (now on order with University Bookstore, but students are welcome to look on their own -- all are popular contemporary titles and should be easy to acquire). Please prioritize paper copies over digital copies. If you are acquiring books in digital formats, make sure that the pagination matches the page numbers of physical books -- we will be referring to page numbers in paper books during class discussions so it's important for us to be (literally) on the same page.

1. Cho Nam-joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (trans. from Korean by Jamie Chang)
2. Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
3. Katie Kitamura, Intimacies  [this book is so new that there's only hardcover for now, so this might be the priciest title; all other titles are available in paperback]
4. Jenny Erpenbeck, Go, Went, Gone (trans. from German by Susan Bernofsky)
5. Yoko Tawada, The Emissary (trans. from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani)
6. Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
7. Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone (trans. from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer)
8. Serhiy Zhadan, The Orphanage (trans. from Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler)

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