The Leader and the Led. The political leader, the military conqueror, and their followers or subjects as portrayed in representative works in French, German, English, and American literature from the Renaissance to modern times. Protest in African Literature. At least sophomore standing. Reading and discussion of poets, novelists and essayists from West, East and South Africa who have written in protest of French, English, Portuguese, and neocolonial oppression.
Gender struggles and inequalities in indigenous systems.
Also listed as AFA 257. 258. At least sophomore standing. Literature and culture of Russia from the primary Chronicles, Karamzin and Gogol to Turgenev and Tolstoi. At least junior standing and a course in Western Civilization, or consent of instructor. Literature and culture from Chekhov and Gorki to Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn and the New Soviet Fiction.