{"id":2625,"date":"2022-06-17T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:39:57","slug":"engl-2920-a-memory-and-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/2022\/engl-2920-a-memory-and-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 2920 A: Topic in Decolonization &#038; Migration I: Memory and Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        ENGL 2920 A: Topic in Decolonization &#038; Migration I: Memory and Migration\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>ENGL 2920 A: Topic in Decolonization &amp; Migration I: Memory and Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fall 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/casteel-sarah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Sarah Casteel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; color: #191919;\">In the early 21st century, violent political and religious conflicts, economic challenges and climate crises are spurring migrations across the globe. At the same time, we are reckoning with the continuing, painful legacies of older histories of dislocation connected to traumas such as transatlantic slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Vietnam War. What is the role of literature in an era of increasing mobility and dislocation? What kinds of insights do contemporary writers offer into the impact of displacement on identity and belonging? How does migration disrupt individual and collective memory? How do immigrant, refugee, and diaspora writers preserve migrant memories that are often erased by official narratives of the nation state?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; color: #191919;\">This course explores the relationship between migration, memory, and literary form. We will read across a series of different literary genres, including autobiographical essays, short stories, novels, and graphic narratives. We\u2019ll consider how each of these genres illuminates distinctive dimensions of migrant memory. While some of our course texts will address recent refugee and migrant experiences, others will engage with older histories of displacement. They will depict migrations across not only physical borders but also linguistic, religious, temporal and other borders. Our encounters with these literary narratives of migration will illuminate the transnational and global dynamics of memory and identity formation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGL 2920 A: Topic in Decolonization &amp; Migration I: Memory and Migration Fall 2022 Instructor: Professor Sarah Casteel In the early 21st century, violent political and religious conflicts, economic challenges and climate crises are spurring migrations across the globe. At the same time, we are reckoning with the continuing, painful legacies of older histories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-descriptions"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}