Dear students,

In this course, you will read several, modern literary works written in both North and South America, and from several genres. You will also learn about world-literature as an approach, by attending a lecture and reading scholarly texts (e.g. journal articles and book chapters) on various theories and questions common to the concept of world literature. This concept will be used as the chief theoretical-analytical lens to be applied to reading the literary works on this course, and discussed during the obligatory seminars. 

Teaching 

The course offers six seminars, beginning with an interactive lecture. Each seminar is dedicated to different literary works and scholarly topics. Each seminar will include preparatory readings and pre-seminar writing tasks, which you will form the basis for your online seminar discussions with other students and the seminar teacher. 

Contact 

If you have questions about this course, please contact the relevant teacher or the course coordinator, David Gray (dgy@du.se). 

All the online seminar activities will take place in this Zoom room: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/61961838370 

The introduction for this course will take place on Monday, 1st September, 13.00-14.30: World Literatures: North and South America (Catharina Edfeldt). 

The course seminars will take place on Mondays, between 13.00-14.30 in the following weeks:

• Week 36: Introduction
• Week 37: Seminar 1 - America (Portuguese-speaking) Adriana Lisboa, Crow Blue
• Week 38: Seminar 2 - America (French-speaking) Dany Laferrière How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
• Week 39: Reading week
• Week 40: Seminar 3 - America (English-speaking) Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
• Week 41: Seminar 4 - America (English-speaking) John Cheever "Reunion" and Alice Walker "Everyday Use"
• Week 42: Seminar 5 - America (Spanish-speaking) Alejo Carpentier, Kingdom of This World 
• Week 43: submission of suggested topic for final essay (instructions will be posted in Canvas)
• Week 44: submission of final essay
• Week 45: Seminar 6 - Essay presentation seminar.

Please be aware that seminar dates and times can, in some circumstances, change. We will always strive to post any changes in the Canvas room clearly and giving as much advance notice as possible. 

Further information will be published in the Modules in the coming weeks. Please make sure that you have access to the obligatory course literature for the duration of the course, and to allow you sufficient time to read each of the literary works. 

Welcome to the course and we look forward to seeing you on Zoom!

David Gray

dgy@du.se 

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