This course explores how exile, displacement, and the search for belonging shape contemporary literary expression across cultures. Through some theoretical excerpts, students will examine foundational ideas about language, identity, borders, and double consciousness. These frameworks will guide our reading of novels that portray exile in its many forms—emotional, geographic, cultural, and linguistic. Through discussion, close reading, and analytical writing, students will investigate how writers narrate fractured homelands, hybrid identities, intergenerational memory, and the tensions between loss and reinvention.
Assessment will be based on attendance, participation, in-class activities and assessments, regular discussion posts, short assignments, an oral presentation, discussion leading, and two substantive papers.
- Teacher: Joe Larios