Comparative Literature 159 - Exilic Pleasures:Memory,Writing,and Belonging in Contemporary Thought and Writings

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University of California-Los Angeles

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Lecture, four hours. Engagement of theoretical and literary texts about experience of living in exile and questioning of political and poetic possibilities and limitations that this condition brings about. Exploration of relationships between exile, poetic expression, freedom, memory, writing, and collective identification. Clarification of difference between "exile by choice" and "forced exile," proceeding to distinguisbetween exile understood in terms of (modernist) literary trope - and sociohistorical condition of living in exile, asking what does it mean to think about exile in comparative terms P/NP or letter grading.

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5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ucla.edu/

Phone Number:

(310) 825-4321

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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