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Global Studies
Similarities will be seen among some of the topics proposed
below and two suggested under the model "Literary Explorations
of Selfhood" (The Construction of Cultural Identity and Alienation
from the World and the Self). Anchoring such literary works
with readings in the growing number of introductory textbooks
for the study of politics and history global terms gives
this topic a weight appropriate to a global studies program
offering.
Thomas M. Magstadt, Nations and Governments: Comparative
Politics in Regional Perspective (1994).
Robert Strayer et al., The Making of the Modern World:
Connected Histories, Divergent Paths: 1500 to the Present (1989).
Richard L. Greaves et al., Civilizations of the World:
The Human Adventure (1993).
Robert Tignor et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2002).
- Narratives of Battle and the Formation of National Identity
Ssu-ma Ch’ien, from Historical Records
The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki
The Mahābhārata
Virgil, The Aeneid
Ferdowsi, Shâhnâme
The Song of Roland
The Tale of the Heike
The Epic of Son-Jara
Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna
- The Literature of Reclusion and Exile
The Bible: The Old Testament: Genesis 4, 37, 39-46;
Psalm 137
Homer, The Odyssey
The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki
T‘ao Ch‘ien, The Peach Blossom Spring; The Return
Tu Fu, Poems
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Murasaki, The Tale of Genji, Chapters 12 and 13
The Epic of Son-Jara
Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori
K‘ung Shang-jen, The Peach Blossom Fan
Akhmatova, Requiem
Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Brathwaite, Limits
- Responses to Invasion, Expulsion, Colonial Oppression,
and Occupation
The Bible: The Old Testament: Psalm 137
Virgil, The Aeneid, from Book XII
Montaigne, Of Cannibals; Of Coaches
Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna
Cantares Mexicanos
Swift, A Modest Proposal
Yeats, "Easter 1916"
Camus, The Guest
Kojima, The American School
Lessing, The Old Chief Mshlanga
Borowski, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber
Amichai, Jerusalem, God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Walcott, "Ruins of a Great House"; "The Almond Trees"; "Verandah"; "Omeros"
Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
Yehoshua, Facing the Forests
Goodison, "To Us, All Flowers Are Roses"
- The Rule of Law
The Bible: The Old Testament, Genesis 1-4, 6-9; Job
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, The Apology of Socrates
Confucius, Analects
Ssu-ma Ch’ien, Letter in Reply to Jen An
The Bhagavad-Gītā
The Bible: The New Testament: The Sermon on
the Mount
The Koran
Sadi, Golestan
Boccaccio, The Decameron: "The Tenth Story of
the Tenth Day"
Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna
Wu Ch‘eng-en, Monkey
Molière, Tartuffe
Pope, Essay on Man
Voltaire, Candide
Blake, "London"
Shelley, "England in 1819"
Heine, The Silesian Weavers
Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tagore, "Punishment"
Al-Hakim, The Sultan’s Dilemma
Camus, The Guest
Nawal El Saadawi, In Camera
- Class, Caste, and Racism
Petronius, The Satyricon
Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
The Tale of the Heike
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue
Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone
Voltaire, Candide
Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Premchand, The Road to Salvation
Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Faulkner, Go Down Moses: "The Bear"
Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Mahasweta, Breast-Giver
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