ENGL 219
"Get Back to Where You Once Belonged": Immigration in Cultural Context Fall 2016
Division I Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
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This course is centered on the idea of “immigrant literature” and the various forms it has taken across historical and geographical contexts. We will inquire into formal and topical differences between American immigrant narratives and their European counterpoints. We will also consider the figure of the “immigrant” as a literary trope, in comparison to the “migrant,” the “refugee,” the “exile,” the “foreigner,” and the “stranger.” We will work with texts by Joseph Conrad, Saul Bellow, Chang Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sam Selvon, Zadie Smith, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, and such films as La Haine and Head-On. The course will contribute to the College’s Exploring Diversity Initiative by examining the myriad productive and volatile cultural encounters that are inherent to the phenomenon of immigration.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 2001
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: participation in discussion and a class blog, and 20 pages of writing distributed over four papers
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: first- and second-year students and English majors who have yet to take a Gateway course
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Attributes: ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C

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