Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 551A - Salman Rushdie And The Transnational Imagination
| Effectivity: | 01/07/2008 - 05/03/2008 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Rushdie&Trans Imagnatn |
| Description: | Over the course of the last twenty-five years Salman Rushdie has not only produced a large body of work (to date eight novels, two plays, a screenplay, a documentary, more than a dozen short stories, a political memoir of Nicaragua, and over a hundred critical reviews and political essays), he has become a literary figure of international standing. Even before the notorious "death sentence" Rushdie had achieved international status with his novel Midnight's Children, which one the Booker Prize in 1981. His novels increasingly reflect a transnational sensibility. Midnight's Children and Shame are set in India and Pakistan, respectively, but The Satanic Verses, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and Shalimar the Clown move between India, England, the U.S., Argentina, Germany, and elsewhere. This course will consider Rushdie's works against this complex historical and political background. We will read several of his novels, and a large handful of his critical writings. We will discuss the inclusion of Rushdie in the literary Canon and the "production" of his texts in institutionalized fields of literary criticism such as postmodernism and postcolonialism, while also considering the possibility of connecting his texts to more radical theoretical movements and ideas that resist not only these academic institutions but the larger political institutions that found themselves on such ideas as Huntington's "clash of civilizations" and Fukuyama's "end of history" discourse. Ultimately this course will seriously think the real potential of the literary text: its ability to unfold new formations of cultural identity, creativity, and freedom in even the most disciplined and "security"-oriented of ages. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Max Repeatable Credits: | 6.00 |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
