EWL 380 International Postmodernist Fiction
In this course, we will read innovative literary fiction written in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in a number of cultural contexts and languages (in English translation). We will explore the multiple meanings of the term “postmodern” and look at contemporary narrative experiments through the lens of postmodernist theory, focusing on questions of language, representation, and meaning. While the course focuses primarily on experimental novels, we will also explore other forms of postmodernist art, including film and architecture. We may also attend literary readings by selected contemporary authors.