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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | ITALB212001 |
Course Title | Italy today: |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Kubati,Ron |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
T 07:10pm-10:00pm |
Room Location | BYC239,CARP25 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1871 There are numerous economic, political, and cultural elements that encumber on the existential condition of the migrant. In political and ideological parlance the term migrant has come to mean poor, needy, precarious, unhappy, primitive, and even criminal. In Italy, furthermore, the colonial past has been foreclosed, leading to a strengthening of stereotypes that continue to populate the discourse on migration. In this course we will examine issues related to migration, such as colonialism. racism, gender relations, discrimination, identity and difference and how they re-present new forms of multicultural and contaminated life and their impact on geography, security, identity, and belonging. . Is multiculturalism the answer to all the problems? Does it resolve the problem of closed communities so eloquently discussed by Bauman? With the help of Italian cinema of migration and selected critical articles we will discuss different positions and follow the migrants as they cross desert and sea to reach the European metropolis. From Libya to Lampedusa, from the Balkans to Puglia, and from there to the Roman peripheries, to the center of the city. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU) |
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