OSUN Theme: Inequalities
Characters in the Colony
Term: September 6, 2023 – December 20, 2023Level: 300-Level
Day/Time: W 8:00 AM EDT - 10:20 AM EDT
Instructor: Zahid Rafiq, Bard College
What kind of people come to life in occupations, conflict areas, and dictatorships? Who dies? Who survives? Who withers away? Who flourishes? What happens to the rights of people that in ‘normal places’ would be considered fundamental? Do some people, as Simone Weil says, really become things? We will look closely and intimately at the various characters that inhabit literature set in dark times and through them look at the dark time itself.
Credits: 4 U.S. / 8 ECTS