<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, and 10C, or 11 and 87. Examination of how critical frameworks of nation and migration, transnationalism and globalization, and tradition and modernity frame analysis of literary texts, particularly relationship between literature and national identity. Other topics include nation building in relationship to regional identities as well as discourses of national expansion, diaspora, resettlement, and exile and foundational narratives of nation in relationship to representations of mobility. Genres may include epic, romance, travel narrative, novel, and autobiography. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

English

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College of Letters and Science

The department is dedicated to the study of the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world in which English is a primary language.

General Catalog

Nationalism and Transnationalism

ENGL134

5 units