Writing Across Languages: Multilingual Identities, Literatures, and Translation
WRCT 230
Spring 2025
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"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture" -- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks, 1952 If we enter and inhabit different worlds and cultures through language, how does writing across languages form unique multilingual voices, identities, and politics? In this course, students will gain confidence and skills in writing in multiple languages or multiple dialects of Englishes. The class will read multilingual and transnational authors in various genres -- including creative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and journalistic forms. We will practice writing through short writing prompts and translations, etc. We then discuss the experience of doing so in conversations with theories on translanguaging, translation, and multilingual identity. Along with writing, students will be able to critically examine multilingual and/or transnational experiences and the politics of translation and transnational literature, thereby shedding new light on the relationships with our language(s). Intermediate level of a language other than English or an English dialect other than American academic English is preferred for full participation in class. If you have questions about other qualifying experiences, contact the Kim-Frank Multilingual Writing Fellow, Xiran Tan, at xtan01@wesleyan.edu. |
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| Credit: .5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
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| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
- Prof. Hepford will be in attendance at every class, but the course will be taught by the Kim-Frank Multilingual Writing Fellow, Xiran Tan. |
| Instructor(s): Hepford,Elizabeth (Beth) Times: ..T.... 04:30PM-06:00PM; Location: FISK305; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: 3 |
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