English 256 - Transnational Literature

'Surveys the growing body of literature termed 'transnational,' with special focus on the theme of memory. How is culture defined by how we remember? What separates private and public histories? What role does temporality play in narratives extending across geographic regions? Reading novels, memoirs, short stories, and poems from the last half-century, we will consider themes of nostalgia, trauma, cognition, repression, archaeology, and myth in the contexts of colonialism, cosmopolitanism, migration, and diaspora. Authors include Nabokov, Rushdie, Ishiguro, and Ondaatje, among others.'

Instructor Permission Required. Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors