Spring 2025 Course COMPLIT 100: Contemporary Southeast Asia through Literature and Film – Annette Lienau

Annette Lienau – COMPLIT 100 (https://vimeo.com/880571477?share=copy)

This course will explore contemporary literature and cinema across Southeast Asia, focusing on regional developments after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 through the present. Themes discussed include literature’s relationship to economic turmoil and political change; questions of class and social mobility; anti-authoritarian writing and issues of censorship; literature, youth culture, and new media landscapes; and literary explorations of gender and sexuality. Readings will include a selection of critical essays to foreground these central themes of the course, along with poetry, short fiction, and films from: Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. Readings will be taught in English translation and films will be screened with English subtitles.

Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.

News

Oct 2

New translation by William Tamplin: The Other Rooms

Sep 30

Fifteen Questions: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Translation, Keats’s Odes, and HUDS Dumplings

Spring 2025 Course COMPLIT 100: Contemporary Southeast Asia through Literature and Film – Annette Lienau

New translation by William Tamplin: The Other Rooms

Fifteen Questions: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Translation, Keats’s Odes, and HUDS Dumplings

More News

Courses

About

Contact

Search

Spring 2025 Course COMPLIT 100: Contemporary Southeast Asia through Literature and Film – Annette Lienau

New translation by William Tamplin: The Other Rooms

Fifteen Questions: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Translation, Keats’s Odes, and HUDS Dumplings

More News

Menu

Courses

About

Contact

Search