Middlebury

ENGL 0233

Global English and New Media

Global English in the New Media Environment
Far from spelling the end of literature, the rise of new technologies of communication has continually energized Anglophone literary production. Reading literature through the lens of media theory (Stuart Hall, Friedrich Kittler, Gilles Deleuze, Rey Chow) , students in this course will explore how the global circulation of information, media, and images has transformed the literary imagination. While we will sample canonical modernist engagements with earlier transformations in print and visual culture, our main goal will be to bridge the gap between media studies and Anglophone postcolonial literature throughout the world. Readings will be selected from Benyamin, Jasmine Days; Chimamanda Ngozie Adihchie, Americanah; NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names; Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rainforest; Zadie Smith, Swing Time; David Mitchell, Ghostwritten; and the poems of Jean Binta Breeze and Linton Kwesi Johnson. 3 hrs. lect. (REC) (Formerly ENAM 0233)
Subject:
English
Department:
English
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
LIT SOC
Equivalent Courses:
WAGS 0233

Sections

Fall 2023

ENGL0233A-F23 Lecture (Graves)

Spring 2005

ENGL0233A-S05 Lecture (Kerlee)