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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2017 |
Registration ID | GERMB231001 |
Course Title | Cultural Profiles Modern Exile |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies |
Instructor | Seyhan,Azade |
Times and Days | TTh 11:25am-12:45pm
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Room Location | TH251 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1057 This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and others. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Attentive;, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU) Enrollment Limit: 18; Enrollment Criteria: Major/Minor/Concentration; Senior; Junior; Permission of Instructor; |
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