LIT-267 Literatures of the Global South FA3 (3)

This course examines the historical construction of global south as an organizing concept through literature circulated since the turn of the twentieth century. It addresses a wide array of works by writers from the global south with relation to colonialism and empire, immigration and migration, comparative racial formation, gender/sexual citizenship, as well as inter and intra-cultural solidarity building through literary activism. The course also explores how the cultural and political salience of the term global south has transformed through time and place; what the term encompassed, enabled, and challenged at different moments in history; and how the framework is being rethought in the present day. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall and spring.