Courses
ENGL4096 Diaspora Writing in English (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- ENGL2007 Literary and Comparative Studies
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course offers a theoretical and literary study of Chinese memoirs in English and explores the political and ethical implications of writing in the post-Cold-War era and within the context of global capitalism. By tracing the cultural and political topicality of such events as the “Cultural Revolution” as a subject for popular history writing, this course will focus on the following topics: life writing, popular history, trauma, global capitalism, English as lingua franca.