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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | GERMB231001 |
Course Title | Cultural Profiles Modern Exile |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | German |
Instructor | Seyhan,Azade |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1283 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 Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Ana Castillo, Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, Kurban Said, and others. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Attentive; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Limit: 22 |
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