ENG1002: Diaspora Literature
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2022-08Author
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This course explores literature about diaspora: “ as the abandonment of home, whether
voluntary or enforced, and a search for a new home, new opportunities, and new beginnings,
even as the home of the past lingers in the imagination, in memory, and in desire.....
The twenty first century has been marked by massive and often chaotic displacements of
peoples seeking refuge from violence, famine, and persecution in their homelands or opportunities for economic survival in an increasingly globalized and politically turbulent world. The
twentieth century, the century of totalitarianism and genocide, had already seen seismic shifts in
populations fleeing ethnic cleansing, political persecution, and specific events such as WWI and
WWII, the Holocaust African decolonization, the Indian partition, various regime changes, and
nation building. Literature and film in the twentieth and twenty first centuries have recorded the
histories and fictionalizations of such diasporic experiences. The two oldest and far reaching
global diasporas have been the Jewish and the African diasporas. Both were painful, both produced flowering cultural expression, and both continue to develop, centuries later, to this day.
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Stewart, E. (2022, Fall). ENG1002: Diaspora Literature. Yeshiva Colelge, Yeshiva University.
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