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Apr 25, 2024
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2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 100/153 - Border Stories: Transcultural Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Spring 2018
In many ways, globalization and technological advances have made the world a more open and interconnected place than ever before. Yet around the world borders remain sites of contestation. The course asks two interrelated questions: how authors represent borders, and how the genres in which they work shape our understandings of the issues themselves. Topics include the ethics of dividing culture along ethnic, linguistic, and national lines on the one hand and the problems of the universalizing category of “the global” on the other. We will also examine the relationship between creative production and such topics as empire, travel/diaspora, translingualism, and literary reconfiguration. Readings may include works by Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Arjun Appuadurai, Suketu Mehta, Suki Kim and Teju Cole.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 153 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
ENG 153, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
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