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This course provides a survey of North American literatures, presenting texts written by and about immigrants, migrants refugees, and asylum seekers. It will afford students the opportunity to reflect on current discussions in politics and media on refugees, migrants and diasporic communities. Focusing on the representations of migrant trajectories and refugee experiences in literary texts by transcultural Anglophone writers (Jewish, Latinx, Asian, Irish, Ukrainian) who reside in the U.S. and in Canada, we will look at the different representational and narrative strategies which are employed in order to situate the constructions of diasporic and transnational identities within global processes of colonization, globalization, capitalism, and nationalism.
Course Readings:
There will be a course reader, which will be made available on Teams. |
