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Dec 27, 2024
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CLL 181 - (LT) Hybrid Identities in LiteratureSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
The French philosopher and social thinker Michel Foucault once wrote
that each should “cultivate [his or her] legitimate strangeness.”
This course explores characters in world literature from the middle of
the nineteenth century to the present who are caught between
cultures, classes or even countries, individuals who are already
deemed to be “strange” or difficult to categorize or pigeonhole because
they belong to more than one social world. Needless to say, those who
acknowledge and actively cultivate any hybrid identity or sense of
difference run the risk of a more radical break from the society in
which they live; often their multifaceted identities coincide with a
multiculturalism that cannot be acknowledged by the monolithic
community that surrounds them. We will examine a range of
characters in works from Europe, the United States, South America and
Asia who exemplify this dynamic of an outsider consciousness, paying
particularly close attention to details of language, structure and
different methods of literary analysis and theory.
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