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Academic Year 2002/2003
International Crime in Literature
CHUM 345 SP
This course examines representations of illegal economic activity that takes place in a transnational context. Focusing largely on novels published from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, we will
investigate
depictions of plundering pirates, slave traders dealing in the horror of human cargo, and spies seeking to disrupt the commerce and governments of foreign countries.
MAJOR READINGS
Daniel Defoe, CAPTAIN SINGLETON
Peter Markoe, AN ALGERINE SPY IN PENNSYLVANIA
Herman Melville, BENITO CERENO
Martin Delaney, BLAKE
Charles Johnson, MIDDLE PASSAGE
Barry Unsworth, SACRED HUNGER
Peter
Kramer, SPECTACULAR
HAPPINESS
TRAFFIC, the movie
We will also read some historical scholarship on pirates by Hans Turley and Marcus Rediker, work on slave trading and sea mutinies by Eric Sundquist, and excerpts from Peter Dale
Scott and Johnathan Marshall's COCAIN
E POLITICS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
2 - 4 to 6 page essays
1 - 10 to 12 page research paper
1 - class presentation
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Class participation
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Clymer,Jeffory A.
- Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: CFH106
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 5
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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