Learning Outcomes:
- Familiarity with literary and cultural representations and narratives of migration and migrancy
- Familiarity with key historical, social, political, cultural and legal frameworks for understanding contemporary migration management and border regimes
- Familiarity with relevant analytical frameworks from postcolonial studies, critical migration studies, queer diaspora studies, world-literary criticism, border theory
- Understanding of the interconnectedness of race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship/migration status, nationality, geopolitical location (in particular, in shaping systems and experiences of mobility, border regimes, migrancy, ‘home’, etc.)
- Ability to analyse texts with attention to contexts and conceptual frames
- Ability to write an extended essay on a topic related to the module
Indicative Module Content:
Writers studied on this module will include some of the following:
Monica Ali; Elaine Castillo; Teju Cole; Bernardine Evaristo; Myriam Gurba; Amitav Ghosh; Rawi Hage; Mohsin Hamid; Dina Nayeri; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Ivan Monalisa Ojeda; Tayeb Salih; Marjane Satrapi; Zadie Smith; Ocean Vuong.