Global Literatures
In 2010-2011 I was Module Convenor for the second-year core undergraduate module "Contemporary Literatures in a Global Context" at the University of Surrey. The module explored the way in which English literature is constructed within a global context, asking what it means to write today in an increasingly transnational or post-national framework, how that globalised context affects the content and forms of writing, and how the process of reading is altered.
Texts on the module when I taught it included the following: Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Hanif Kureshi's The Buddha of Suburbia, David Mamet's Oleanna, Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, Alice Munro's Open Secrets, Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
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Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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