Cult M: Palestinian Literature as World Literature
Kevin Potter (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Vienna)
Block 6
Mon, Wed, Fri, 12:00-1:20 pm (NY)
(7:00-8:20 pm, Kyiv/St. P)
This course will explore contemporary Palestinian literature. We will examine texts across genres (poetry and prose), while also supplementing this discussion with a proper grasp of Palestinian social history and memory. As a result, course discussions will tackle questions pertaining (but not limited) to: national identity, solidarity, resistance, violence, thwarted peace efforts, and the regional tensions shaped by what Immanuel Wallerstein famously calls a "world-system". As such, Palestinian Literature exists as World Literature, in that it arises out of an integrated social universe and literary space, resulting from the combined and uneven development of state power.