ENGL2703 - 01 - Literature at the Border

(LI) Literary Inquiry (DM) Diversity and Multiculturalism

This course is a theme-based course in which students study literature that comes from, out of or relates to highly politicized "hot spot" borders between "regions," encouraging students to think about borders and border crossing, national identities and transnationalism. Students will discover literature as a vehicle for cross-cultural inquiry, as a mode of empathetic engagement, and as an ethical mode of discovery. The course will highlight borders between the U.S. and Mexico, Palestine and Israel, India and Pakistan, Tibet and China, and Haiti and Dominican Republic. Students will study a mixture of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing and will be introduced to major themes in transnational literary studies.