TR 9:35 AM
Park Hall 0144
In this course, we’ll examine how refugees are represented and, in turn, how they represent themselves in fiction, poetry, performance, film, graphic novels, and video games. We’ll focus on refugee subjects in the 20th and 21st centuries—Palestinian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Burmese, Central American, refugees of the Black Mediterranean—and contextualize their displacement and lifeworlds by turning to critical refugee studies, law, anthropology, border studies, policy, history, and more. Possible authors/texts/films include: Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Ocean Vuong, George Abraham, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Mai Der Vang, Javier Zamora, Dinaw Mengetsu, Papers, Please (Lucas Pope), Mediterranea (dir. Jonas Carpignano), Fremont (dir. Babak Jalali).