LW317 (U.S.): Immigrant Stories & Voices 3CR

This class focuses on a variety of literary texts that examine the experience of immigrants in the USA from the 1950s to the present. The primary and secondary readings, supplemented by in class viewing of films and documentaries, offer a range of immigrants’ narratives both in their specific socio-cultural contexts, and in relation to this country. The class will shed light on American culture and society in its unifying values and contradictions, through the angle of vision given by outsiders looking in, and often challenging ideas of race, gender, identity, ‘home’, and the American Dream.[Formerly Immigrants in America, (Im)migrant Voices: the Future of the American Dream]

Prerequisites: LW200

Lecture/Seminar

All College Elective
Fall/Spring