“Bodies at the Border“
This course examines narratives and representations of borders in their various forms—geographical, political, bodily, and ideological—in North American literature. We will focus on the relationships between race, gender and sexuality, and narratives of migration and other modes of border-crossing within ongoing histories of imperialism and settler colonialism. The course will introduce students to ways of thinking about literary form and genre by engaging with novels, poetry, short stories, a play, scholarly writing, and multimedia productions. Students will develop the critical thinking skills essential to university-level reading, writing, and analysis.