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Prerequisites: ENG-299T (any version)

A study of non-Western authors from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, especially as the authors' works intersect, counter, or complement American and British academic and popular representations of non-White cultures and histories. Topics studied may include Arab and Persian literary genres, such as Sufi poetry and ghazal; anti-colonial and anti-imperial movements and struggle for nationhood; globalization and corporatization and the fight for civil rights; or American and British immigrant and transnational diasporic narratives. Authors studied may include Haruki Murakami, Chinua Achebe, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Mahmoud Darwish, Mohammad Yunus, Mohsin Hamid, and Arundhati Roy.