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May 01, 2026
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ENG 1028 - MAGIC REALISM
credits: 3.0
During the latter decades of the 20th century, an international community of writers and filmmakers began integrating supernatural elements from comic books, popular genre fiction, and movie franchises with the activist ethos of social realism and naturalism. Readings in this class, by writers hailing from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, portray the diverse and interrelated challenges and inequities of the Cold War and its aftermath. Objectives: A) Recognize and describe a set of macroeconomic and geopolitical forces which narrative artists from disparate cultures have attempted to depict and interrogate; B) Identify narrative techniques common to works across these cultures; C) Perform an exegetical reading of a specific work which reveals its position in an ongoing global debate. Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion. Method of Evaluation: Brief written responses, reading, quizzes, and final. Meets *GLP Distribution Requirement.
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