Comparative Literature 100 - PLEASURES OF READING- NATIVES

Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic: This course considers the many ways in which we experience and (re)create "home": as the place where we are born, where we seek refuge, where our families are, where we emigrate. Food plays a central role in how we think of home—how do scents, spices, rituals, and preparations inform our sense of self and community? Studying selected works of fiction, film, oral history, and essays, we will explore the ways in which you, as well as refugees, migrants, immigrants, exiles, and émigrés, understand and conceptualize home, belonging, and "otherness."