Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 6 hours per quarter; extra reading, 24 hours per quarter
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Considers two distinct and related literary and historical moments: Palestine and Algeria. Topics include the relations between language and context; literature and literary 173 / Programs and Courses 173 / Programs and Courses historiography; genre and idiom; violence and the body; and the state and institutional practices of reading.