WRI 363 - Reading and Writing:Literatures of Exile and Diaspora

Institution:

Naropa University

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Description:

An opportunity to engage with fiction, poetry and critical texts regarding exile and diaspora, with an emphasis on the mid-twentieth century to the present time. Thematic enquiries through reading and writing engage the relationship of characters and subjects to national and regional space, terrain and borderlands, as well as questions of displacement and belonging. Aesthetic enquiries on what happens to language and the intactness (or not) of form in literatures engage a continuum of voluntary and involuntary trajectories. Readings and research provide a political, historical and cultural context for literary work covered. As writers, students create work that engage and extend the themes and aesthetics of the reading assignments.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.naropa.edu

Phone Number:

(303) 444-0202

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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