Refugee Literature
ENGL 348
Fall 2020
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Sustainability and Environmental Justice |
In this course, we will study literature by and about refugees to consider what might define refugee aesthetics and think about how refugee cultures actively shape and are shaped by international discourses of human rights. As the official number of refugees continues to climb, the media typically portrays refugees as figures who exist in a state of crisis and require immediate humanitarian aid. However, as scholars working in the field of critical refugee studies show, the habit of framing refugees in terms of states of emergency tends to detach refugees from the historical and political contexts that create conditions of forced migration and statelessness. We will historically and environmentally situate the works we study and examine various theories related to forced displacement to explore the thematic concerns and aesthetic shapes of refugee literature. We will also conceptualize how this body of work can serve as a premise for the broader study of American literature. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(HRAD-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
"Theoretical works by Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Yen Le Espiritu, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Peter Nyers
Kate Evans, THREADS: FROM THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Mohsin Hamid, EXIT WEST
Dina Nayeri, THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEE
Viet Thanh Nguyen (editor), THE DISPLACED
Joe Sacco, PALESTINE"
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Examinations and Assignments:
2-3 shorter to longer papers. Final critical or creative-critical project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Active participation and leading discussion.
This course fulfills the Literatures of Difference and Theory requirements and contributes to the American Literature, Race & Ethnicity, and Theory & Literary forms concentrations of the English major.
Class of 2023 and beyond: This course fulfills the Theory, American Literature, and World Literature requirements of the English major. |
| Instructor(s): Nguyen,Marguerite Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 1 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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