ENGL 368 - "Cross-Cultural" Writing

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Trinity College

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We live in a time of unprecedented migrations and intermingling of formerly separate peoples, of dissolving borders, of the collapsing sense of distances. For at least two decades now, world literature has been revitalized by the cross-cultural experiences of many new writers, who in their works straddle more than one culture in unprecedented ways. What makes for literary originality at a time when so many are writing out of a similar, highly politicized, cultural context We will begin by reading "predecessor" writers who were driven to reach from one culture to another, often in the face of political and cultural pressures to which they responded in such highly original ways that they initiated their own lines of literary tradition. We will study their works, but also the writers themselves, and the environments that shaped them. We will then move on to contemporary writers. Readings will be drawn from such predecessors as José Marti, Machado de Assis, Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, V.S. Naipaul; and such more recent writers as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jhumpa Lahiri, André Aciman, Jessica Hagedorn, Junot Diaz, Dagoberto Gilb, José Manuel Prieto, and Zadie Smith. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural cont Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

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(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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