GERMAN 340L - Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity in Europe

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fsil
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
While focusing on questions of transculturality and literary representations of diversity, this comparative class introduces students to key authors and texts in the field of contemporary European literature. The course examines the discursive construction of diversity in today’s de-centered, globalized world and discusses the analytic benefits of the relatively new paradigm of `transculturality’ for literary and cultural studies. The focal point of interest are questions of identity and migratory experiences in German and Francophone novels in particular. This course will be taught in English.

Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures

041616:3