World Literatures 100wl - Topics: Introduction to World Literatures-What is World Literature?

T-What is World Literature?

Fall
2025
01
4.00
Torleif Persson

M W 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM

Smith College
WLT-100wl-01-202601
Seelye 310
tpersson@smith.edu
This course focuses on the global circulation of texts and ideas. With a historical arc that spans from the ancient world to the present, the course explores important cross-cultural influences and traces evolving ideas about “world,” “region,” and “nation” in the context of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial history. The semester culminates by taking Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (a major text in the Latin Boom of the 60s and 70s) as a case study for thinking about the the textual, social, political, and economic dimensions of the dynamic and evolving category of “world literature." Enrollment limited to 20. (E)
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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