ITAL-UA 283 - Other Worlds: Travel Literature in Italy

Institution:

New York University

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Description:

Examines a selection of Italian travel narratives within the context of contemporary postcolonial theory. Readings include several early modern accounts of voyages of discovery, as well as 19thand 20th-century travel narratives, both fictional and nonfictional. Topics to be considered include the relation between power and the production of knowledge as it manifests itself in such narratives; intertextuality and its ideological effects; and modes of representation of racial, cultural, historical, and sexual otherness.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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