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3050Elements of Prose ISBN
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BCB 2016
, This creative fiction workshop will explore the basic elements of prose—plot and structure, characterization, theme, setting, point of view and style—with an emphasis on experimental approaches to each. From George Saunders to Lydia Davis, Tope Folarin to Lucia Berlin, we will explore the work of rule-breaking short story writers. By semester's end each writer will have generated at least one piece of fiction that captures his/her unique voice.
]]>http://opac.berlin.bard.edu//cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=9187Mapping the Postcolonial in Anglophone Literatures ISBN
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BCB 2016
, In this seminar, students will first be acquainted with the key concepts and terminologies used in postcolonial theory that analyze the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary formations of individual/collective identity and cultural belonging. In particular, we will focus on the theoretical writings of, among others, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Leela Gandhi, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, examining the key concepts of hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, alterity, “otherness”, diaspora, orientalism and the subaltern in their critical contexts. Subsequently, we will use these theories as a conceptual framework to explore how the issues of home and belonging, migration and exile, diaspora, place/displacement, citizenship, the body, gender, class, race and ethnicity are broached in selected works of Anglophone literature: V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974), Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981), M. Nourbese Philip’s She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988), Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (1999), Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). By the end of the course, students will have grasped a nuanced understanding of the material and epistemological conditions of postcoloniality, as well as of how cultural and collective identities are explored, (re-)negotiated and mapped out in/through Anglophone literary texts.
]]>http://opac.berlin.bard.edu//cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=9186The Origins of Political Economy ISBN
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BCB 2016
, The course explores the intellectual history of the contemporary disciplines of economics, political theory and sociology, by examining the origins of the discourse known as “political economy,” the philosophical study of the means and processes by which societies and populations provide for their own survival and development. It offers an introduction to the reach and implications of this endeavor, its relationship to questions of law, sovereignty and political representation as well as war and the definition of human identity. In keeping with its attention to the formative history of modern categories and disciplines of knowledge, the course also addresses the way in which economic thinking influences literary texts and cultural exchange, from the shaping of novelistic plot to the connotations of everyday language. It allows students to understand, draw upon and critique the historical formulation of contemporary problems and concerns such as inequality, the sources and circulation of wealth, and the connection (and differentiation) between the economic and political spheres.
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