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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42919
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 247
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Human Diversity
UG Core Literature/Writing
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Global Perspective
Other Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
English Diversity Req.
Writing to learn
What is now termed by mainstream scholars and activists as the "refugee crisis" is a subject that calls for serious study. In terms of sheer numbers, the problem is a substantial one. Conservative estimates put the current number of displaced people at over 80 million. However, the concerns of this course will go far beyond the numbers themselves. This course will provide historical and political context for this contemporary crisis. Supplemented by theoretical works such as Alicia Schmidt Camacho’s MIGRANT IMAGINARIES: LATINO CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, Nicholas De Genova and Martina Tazzioli’s edited EUROPE/CRISIS: NEW KEYWORDS OF “THE CRISIS” IN AND OF “EUROPE,” and Agnes Woolley's CONTEMPORARY ASYLUM NARRATIVES, we will explore attempts by a variety of writers, such as Rabih Alameddine, Edwidge Danticat, Omar El Akkad, Jenny Erpenbeck, Yuri Herrera, Dina Nayeri, and Viet Than Nguyen, among others, to capture the many facets of refugees’ lives. We will also examine other representative texts, such as the film HUMAN FLOW by Ai Wei Wei and the music of MIA. This course satisfies a WAC Writing to Learn requirement and the Global Perspectives requirement. It also satisfies a Diversity Literature requirement for English and English with a Professional Writing Emphasis majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.
4 Credits