ENGLISH 336: The Literature of Exile (JEWISHST 336)

Course Description

Human history is one of diasporas collective and individual, and representations of exile both literary and theoretical are as various as the phenomenon of exile itself: statelessness, homelessness, as well as a state of mind Edward Said called metaphorical exile and Georg Lukacs called transcendental homelessness. In this course, we will examine novelistic, autobiographical and theoretical accounts of the experience of exile.