contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#0contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
Posted: 5/3/05 at 5:34pm
So I was given a choice for the next two months...I could either find a job or take a few courses in the spring term.
Of course I'd rather take class!
Of the courses offered, I had prereqs for very few (one of the pains of being a music major) or I just wasn't interested in them. Having done well in english in highschool though, I figured- why not take contemporary lit?
So I go to class today. Contemporary lit? Post WWII, the course description said. So I'm thinking a bit of Margaret Atwood, Judith Thompson, Alaistar MacLeod....
Um....try Arabic texts translated into English. Somehow, this entire course is literature based on middle eastern conflict post 1917. WTF!!!
I know NOTHING about this period in history. Although, just as I was starting to think I'd never passed this course, I remembered a book I read in highschool about a Jewish girl who was the only member of her family to survive WWII and decided to join the Zionist movement and travel to Israel. I was intrigued. I went to a Catholic school- I had no idea what the words Palestine and Isreal had even come to mean. I remember being fascinated, but, being busy I forgot to investigate the topic further.
So something tells me fate threw me into this course. It's not that I'm not tolerant of other parts of the world, I'm just disgustingly uneducated. And given the insane amounts of music and drama credits I have to accumulate during the regular school year, this seems like the perfect opprotunity to expand my horizons a bit. Not only do I have to study this literature from an analytical english point of view, but I get to learn about the history and politics of the middle east along the way.
Let me put it this way. Before today I knew that the Middle East was always fighting. Didn't know why or how severe. Just seemed like the part of the world I would never want to visit.
I'm really looking forward to learning more.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#1re: contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
Posted: 5/3/05 at 5:39pmI took a class on early Islamic history my first semester in college, and it was quite an eye-opener. Hope you enjoy the class, judy.
#2re: contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:17pm
Sounds challenging to me. I hope you find it interesting.
I am about ready to put the cruise control on coast in my current course, because I can't stand the subject matter, and I can't even write the final paper, because it bores me so much.
Good luck beautiful.
Hamlet's father.
#3re: contemporary lit= Arabic lit in translation?
Posted: 5/3/05 at 9:50pmGood luck hon, it sounds very interesting
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
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