Modern Comparative Fiction

(Lecture). The premise of this course is that many of the aesthetically most accomplished works of fiction written in the last half century have also worked hardest to engage with the almost ungraspable realities of their planetary location in space and time. Writers to be discussed include Tayeb Salih, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, Jamaica Kincaid, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W.G. Sebald.