This course investigates forms of culture that
arise out of migration. In rap music, internet
blogs, puppetry and bilingual theater, as well as
in the more traditional genres of literature and
poetry, the course looks at how migrants and their
descendents use cultural work to explore
questions of identity, citizenship and community.
The course may include work by migrants in and
across Europe, the Americas, Asia or Africa; it will also
look at the transnational connections migrants
make among these different spaces. Students are
encouraged to discover and analyze new cultural
production in any media, using the
theoretical resources developed over the semester.
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