Transfer Student Courses in Comparative Literature This page was created at 7:13 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Comparative Literature (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for COMPLIT Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Comparative Literature. COMPLIT 260. Europe and Its Others. Section 001 – Colonial SE Asia Through the Novel. Instructor(s): Jennifer L Gaynor Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Was the colonial period in Southeast Asia a romantic adventure? A mission of good works? Was it all about money and power – a tragedy of exploitation, ending triumphantly in revolutions of national liberation? What was "the colonial" anyway? We will examine this question primarily through the lens of fiction, produced by those who have wielded colonial power, critiqued it, opposed it, apologized for it, borne witness to it, and overthrown it. Particular attention will be paid to how the category "native" is represented, how it intersects with considerations of class, gender, "race" and ethnicity, and how the term's significance has varied with historical context and perspective. In addition to novels, we will read short complementary pieces including historical and biographical essays, primary historical source material, and cultural and literary criticism. We will also consider how novelistic truths differ from historical ones, and what a work of fiction may bring to our understanding of the past. Readings will include: Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim; Marguerite Duras, The Lover; George Orwell, Burmese Days; C.S. Godshalk, Kalimantaan; Multatuli, Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company ; Jose Rizal, Noli Me Tangere; André Malraux, The Royal Way; Louis Couperus, The Hidden Force; Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind; K.S. Maniam, The Return; Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 COMPLIT 372. Literature and Identity. Section 001 – Strange Occupation of the Subject. Instructor(s): Tomoko Masuzawa (masuzawa@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May be elected twice, for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. How does a writer/narrator come to occupy the position of the subject? Is the subject-position a function of the genre--fiction, ethnography, autobiography, case history, etc? Can we, or should we try to understand this position primarily in light of what we know of the "real life" of the author? The reading material may include ethnographic writing (Malinowski, Clifford Geertz), fictional autobiography (Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask ), as well as some intriguingly weird memoirs by clinically neurotic and psychotic persons, such as the Wolf-Man (one of Freud's patients) and Daniel Paul Schreber (a paranoid schizophrenic who wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness to demonstrate that he was no longer insane). Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 COMPLIT 430. Comparative Studies in Fiction. Section 001 – The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Middle Eastern Literature. Meets with AAPTIS 383.001. Instructor(s): Carol Bardenstein (cbardens@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of nine credits. Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 383.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 COMPLIT 430. Comparative Studies in Fiction. Section 002 – Impressions of a Turkish Author. Meets with MENAS 490.001. Instructor(s): Ahmet Husrev Altan Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of nine credits. Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability COMPLIT 490. Comparative Cultural Studies. Section 002 – Politics of Culture in Hebrew Literature: Ethnicity. Meets with HJCS 491.001 and Judaic Studies 317.001. Instructor(s): Ruth Tsoffar (rtsoffar@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies 491.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. 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