HUMA 14100 - Reading Cultures:Travel

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

Focusing on the literary conventions of cross-cultural encounter, this quarter concentrates on how individual subjects are formed and transformed through narrative. We investigate both the longing to travel and the trails of displacement. We read several forms of travel literature, from the Renaissance to the present (e.g., texts about the European encounter with the Americas, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place), and screen films.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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