Contemporary Literature and Nobel Laureates

A condensed, point-by-point summary of the module, for reviewing right before a test or exam.

1. The Nobel Prize and Existentialist Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature, Tagore as its first non-European laureate, and the rise of existentialist fiction.
2. Latin American Magical Realism. García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Latin American Boom, Borges, and Neruda.
3. African American and African Literature. Toni Morrison and Beloved, Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart, and Wole Soyinka's drama.
4. Middle Eastern, Turkish, and British Voices. Mahfouz, Pamuk, Lessing, and the dystopias of Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.
5. Theatre of the Absurd and the American Novel. Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the mid-century American voices of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck.
6. Dissident and Postcolonial Fiction. Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn under Soviet censorship, Ishiguro, and the Satanic Verses controversy.
7. Contemporary Voices Across the Globe. Oe, Murakami, Munro, Heaney, Szymborska, Bob Dylan's Nobel, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
8. World Literature Today. Translation and globalization, major literary prizes, postmodernism, feminist dystopia, and digital storytelling.