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Engl 157: Great Works Of Global Literature, Scott R. Kapuscinski Jan 2023

Engl 157: Great Works Of Global Literature, Scott R. Kapuscinski

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Syllabus for a general education course bringing together celebrated texts by Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, and Marjane Satrapi. Survey of perspectives beginning during the "scramble for Africa" via Conrad, through postcolonial writers Achebe and Head, and finally making a connection via dehumanization to Orientalism and undoing monocultural presumptions in the near East through Satrapi's Persepolis.

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