Transatlantic Literatures

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This course tracks the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years. Students examine a variety of documents to map transformations in form, genre, and medium across historical and geographic contexts. Students consider how colonization, exile, displacement, and migration have track the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years reinforced or contested national literary traditions.