HNRS: Borders in Literature
Fall 2020 Courses
Course:
ENGL 282 H02 24925
Course Attributes:
EngLit, Humanities, AIU
Instructor:
Evren Ozselcuk
Location/Times(1):
WEB COLUMBIA on @
Location/Times(2):
WEB COLUMBIA on TR @ 02:50 pm - 04:05 pm
Registered:
18
Seat Capacity:
19
Special topics in fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. May be repeated for credit. Content varies by title and semester. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or equivalent. FS: 11/04/2015. CL: 2020.
Notes:
In this course we will approach the idea of the border and border-crossing from a range of perspectives, probing literary depictions of national/territorial borders, psychic borders of the self (and other), borders between human and animal, as well as borders that construct and sustain civilizational, racial, gender and class divisions. We will read texts in various genres, including sci-fi, transnational fiction, graphic novel, historical fiction, and immersive/hypertext fiction, which complicate the neat division that the border as a concept signifies between outside and inside. Besides the content, we will also examine the structures and narrative strategies of these texts to see how they might be enacting border-crossings in their very form. PrerequisitesENGL 101 and ENGL 102