English 491C - Transplants:Conrad,Nabokov,Rushdie Majumdar

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Whitman College

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How are displacement, difference, and transfer represented in the work of modern writers who were migrants and cultural "transplants" What kinds of cultural contests, exchange, and absorption do these writers see as products of migration How do they show people negotiating these processes at times of massive social and technological change How do theaesthetics of these border-crossing writers with partial allegiances reflect the conditions of migration We will address such questions through a study of anxious introspection, simultaneous snobbery, confusion, anger, melancholy, irony, and cultural "deviance," as well as attitudes to plurality and mixture, in works by three major writers exploring cultural transplantation: Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and Salman Rushdie.

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3.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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www.whitman.edu

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(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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