SELF REPRESENT/NATN

This course is devoted to a study of selected literary texts set in various regions of Southeast Asia. The readings will include works by foreign authors who lived and traveled in Southeast Asia and translations of works by Southeast Asian writers. These texts will be used to make comparisons and observations with which to characterize coloniality, nationalism, and postcoloniality. This course satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Required Textbook(s):

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal, translated by Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin, University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN: 0824819179

Not Out of Hate by Ma Ma Lay, translated by Margaret Aung-Thwin, Ohio University Center for International Studies, ISBN: 0896801675