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2018年度 秋冬講座
10) Reading and discussing The Thing Around Your Neck

講義内容

We will read and discuss The Thing Around Your Neck, the short story collection by the prize-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These provocative, beautifully written stories are set in Nigeria and the USA, and feature memorable characters facing various difficulties of modern life, such as marauding guerrillas and microwave ovens.

＜テキスト＞
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie著　The Thing Around Your Neck　1,095円（参考価格）
ISBN-10：0007306210
ISBN-13：978-0007306213
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各回テーマ

(1) Introduction to the course and book; read and discuss “Cell One” and “Imitation”

(2) Read and discuss “A Private Experience” and “Ghosts”

(3) Read and discuss “On Monday of Last Week” and “Jumping Monkey Hill”

(4) Read and discuss “The Thing Around Your Neck” and “The American Embassy”

(5) Read and discuss “The Shivering” and “The Arrangers of Marriage”

(6) Read and discuss “Tomorrow is Too Far” and “The Headstrong Historian”; concluding discussion

講師紹介

専攻：英文学・比較文学
オックスフォード大学卒業、ロンドン大学大学院修士課程修了。成城大学で英文学、文化研究、英語、日本文学を教える。

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