FIRST YEAR SEMINARS 104 - Lost in Translation:Memory in Exile

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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In the context of globalization, a web of transnational communities has emerged in the world. These new migrations have transformed national literatures. In this seminar students focus on the work of writers from the Diaspora-writers who live outside their countries and in the memory of their native languages, religions and cultures, while forging new identities abroad. Through the works of African and Caribbean writers, students ask questions about notions of authenticity and alienation. What strategies do these writers devise to relocate themselves in new imaginary or physical spaces How do they capture the pressures, the challenges and the experiences shaping their migrant communities In what ways do they negotiate their pluralistic identities while they live in states of displacement, wandering, remembrance, and are confronted by prejudice These are among the issues discussed. From a historical perspective, students also learn about the ideological and literary relationships of black American intellectuals with African and Caribbean authors writing from their exilic situations in Paris. The main objective of the seminar is to understand how patterns of memory, exile and identity affect and operate in the fictional works of these writers. (Dahouda)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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