Comparative Literature 290M - Migration,Commotion&Community

Aims to broaden students' understanding of what the category 'migrant' signifies by replacing the often stereotypical and reductive images and narratives that the phrase evokes with a more nuanced understanding of the disruption, movement, and the re-formation of communities that the act of migration entails, as well as the hurdles that can impede this process. Students engage with, interrogate, and reflect on a spectrum of text types - novels, short stories, poetry, essays, film, and visual art - that give voice to the stories of immigrant populations that have come to the U.S. from different countries and cultural backgrounds across various time periods. The texts read or viewed in this class represent a broad spectrum of European, Latin American, and East and South Asian countries. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

This course will be team taught by Professor Moira Inghilleri and a graduate student TA, Shastri Akella. There are no sections as it is being taught in the style of a seminar, not a large lecture. The first half of the course will be literature-based and the second half will be film-based.