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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017
- Course Number:
- ENG 246
- Course Title:
- Transnational Literature
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
1. Define the qualities of transnational literature and theory in order to position course material in a broader context or discourse (literary, social, political and/or cultural) and contribute to that discourse.
2. Use literary texts to relate to the conditions of exile, immigration and border crossing in order to understand globalization by identifying transnational perspectives and challenging views about racial, cultural, socio-economic and/or national identities.
3. Delineate literary genres and periods to compare/contrast texts and their responses to each other, creating connections between different illustrations of course themes and issues.
4. Perform textual analysis by employing literary terminology and applying literary theories in order to examine relationships between literary forms and themes.
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
Course Activities and Design
The course design may include lectures, group and class discussions, oral presentations, film clips, in-class writing, and attending author readings for extra credit.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Outcome assessment tools may include the following:
• In and out of class written responses that gauge comprehension of themes, plot, character, symbolism, imagery, etc.
• Formal, academic essays
• Group presentations
• Comprehensive final exam
• Quizzes
• Textual analysis
• Participation in group and class discussions
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
May include the following themes, concepts, issues :
• Role of globalization
• Problem of assimilation
• The relationship of deterritorialized or non-territorial literature and the nation state
• The role of memory and nostalgia
• The intellectual in exile
• Exile as a metaphor for modernity; the philosophical implications of exile
• Difference between forced and voluntary exile; issue of social status
• War, revolution, trauma, imprisonment/detainment
• Politics of Émigré literature; literature as propaganda; the social responsibility of exilic writer
• Plurality/hybridization/ ‘mongrelization’ of identity
• Multilingualism
• Nationalism
• Transnational spaces, communities and cities
Literary terms and concepts:
• Narratorial devices and styles (including unreliable, damaged, fractured and limited narrator)
• Metatextuality
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Symbolism
• Literary theories (Formalism; Feminism; Marxism; Historicism; Post-colonialism)
• Literary cannibalization
• Realism
• Anti-realist or surrealist forms
• Postmodernism
• Allegory