RELGST 1258 - ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Reading literature from places of conflict provides an opportunity to go beyond headlines and gain insight into the day-to-day existence, desires, imaginings, and perspectives of the people who live there. Reading literature also reveals how religious values and practices become a part of everyday culture and how those values are embraced or challenged. This course will introduce students to the literature produced by Israeli and Palestinian authors, with a focus on how contemporary issues in Israeli and Palestinian society are depicted by writers from each culture. Topics will include: how these writers construct place; the role of religious texts in literature; conflicts and community within each society; how literature helped shape an Israeli national consciousness and a Palestinian national consciousness; how Israeli and Palestinian writers imagine the other; and the role of the Shoah in Israeli literature and the Nakba in Palestinian literature. The course will equally focus on developing students' academic and reflective writing skills. Students will produce a combination of literary analysis and self-reflective writing that uses techniques of creative nonfiction. Together, these writing assignments will help students respond to both the course texts and the cultural experience of studying in Israel-Palestine.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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