CURSUS: COSMOPOLITISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND LITERATURE. Book: Fault Lines ~ Meena Alexander - Meena Alexander
One of three daughters of a civil servant in India, Alexander spent a large share of her time traveling to join or rejoin relatives in Allahabad (her birthplace), Tiruvella, Kerala, Khartoum, and England. From the age of five, she began crossing cultural and geographical...
CURSUS: COSMOPOLITISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND LITERATURE. Book: Sea of Poppies ~ Amitav Ghosh - Amitav Ghosh
At the heart of this epic saga is an old slaving-ship. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of Ganges, the...
CURSUS: COSMOPOLITISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND LITERATURE. Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran ~ Azar Nafisi - Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran,...
CURSUS: COSMOPOLITISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND LITERATURE. Book: Two Lives ~ Vikram Seth - Vikram Seth
The remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship...
CURSUS: TUSSEN MARGE & MIDDELPUNT. Book: Lolita lezen in Teheran ~ Azar Nafisi - Azar Nafisi
De Iraanse Azar Nafisi doceerde Engelse literatuur
aan de Universiteit van Teheran, maar mocht in haar
colleges de westerse klassiekers niet meer behandelen.
Samen met haar meest getalenteerde studentes
verzon ze een list. Twee jaar lang, elke donderdag,
kwam een groep...
CURSUS: TUSSEN MARGE & MIDDELPUNT. Book: Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley - Mary Shelley
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all...
CURSUS: TUSSEN MARGE & MIDDELPUNT. Book: Herland ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This classic 1915 novel focuses on the misunderstandings and new understandings that result when three male explorers stumble onto an all-female society in the distant reaches of the earth.
CURSUS: TUSSEN MARGE & MIDDELPUNT. Book: Hart van Steen ~ Renate Dorrestein - Renate Dorrestein
"We waren al met zijn vieren toen Ida werd geboren, in een ongewoon koude zomernacht. Dankzij de bijna volle maan was het zelfs om twee uur nog zo licht dat we de sproeten op elkaars neus konden tellen."
De twaalfjarige Ellen is de enige van de vier kinderen uit het...
CURSUS: EROS & PATHOS. Book: Wide Sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rhys - Jean Rhys
In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men....
CURSUS: EROS & PATHOS. Book: Sula ~ Toni Morrison - Toni Morrison
The intense friendship shared by Nel Wright and Sula Peace, two African-American women raised in an Ohio town, changes forever when one of them leaves home to roam the countryside and returns ten years later.
