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This seminar will focus on contemporary fiction in English that centers environmental crises in the global South that are borne of industrialization, neoliberal developmentalist policy, and global warming.  We will attend to how this fiction stages the complexity of pursuing environmental and social justice in locales subject to imperial domination. We will ask how this literature conceptualizes the violence of environmental catastrophe and how it self-reflexively meditates on literature and the arts as means of reckoning with such violence.

Texts for purchase: Zakes Mda, “The Heart of Redness” (MacMillan, 2003, ISBN 9780312421748), Indra Sinha, “Animal’s People” (Simon & Schuster, 2008, ISBN 9781416526278), Amitav Ghosh, “Gun Island” (MacMillan, 2019, ISBN 9780374167394). All will be made available at Payot, Rue de la Confédération. Other texts will be made available on Moodle.