What are the current (11/2018) TESU Non-Western Literature alternatives available?

[pws]

Not that I know of. African Encounters or Non-Western Lit through TESU are going to be your best bets unfortunately

I took African Encounters and it's like brain poison, but I did eventually get through it.

TESU's Non-Western Lit. looks like a decent amount of effort, but it does look interesting. I'm registered and starting it on the 6th of May. Books are all ordered and ready.

[jsh1138]

yeah it's more work than African Encounters but covers a wider variety of stuff. I looked at it but chose AE in the end, If I had it to do over I probably would have done Non-Western Lit

[MishaRaine]

I took both TESU's African Encounters and Non-Western Lit at the same time which was a pretty heavy reading load, so it's hard to tell which was more difficult. I will say AE covers some intense content (e.g. graphic depictions of the apartheid) while Non-Western Lit covers more diverse reading (one of the books is an anthology). Overall, I enjoyed both courses but would probably lean towards Non-Western Lit if I were making a recommendation.

[jsh1138]

my problem with AE is that the entire thing is about colonialism, so it's not about "African" literature at all. Also, 2 of the 4 books assigned are fictional and tbh not very good fiction. And most of the selections include plenty of racism against whites as well as racism against blacks, but the course never examines the anti-white stuff at all, obviously.

The worst of the four books assigned was written by a woman who fictionalizes it by pretending that her mother wrote it as a letter to her, and the entire "letter" is her mom talking about how amazing she is. Another one of them includes the author's wistful recollections about the times he threw rocks at retarded people and stole money from the offering plate at church, also the time he burned down a homeless woman's tent so she would have to go back to living under a tree somewhere. Also then he includes a stirring condemnation against the British for dropping the A-bomb on Japan, because they are racists. The fact that they didn't drop the A-bomb is not addressed. It's just pretty grim reading, not enjoyable at all.

I haven't taken non-western lit but I don't see how it could be worse.