Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Examination of how critical frameworks of nation and migration, transnationalism and globalization, and tradition and modernity frame analysis of literary texts, particularly relationship between literature and national identity. Other topics include nation building in relationship to regional identities as well as discourses of national expansion, diaspora, resettlement, and exile and foundational narratives of nation in relationship to representations of mobility. Genres may include epic, romance, travel narrative, novel, and autobiography. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0