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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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ENG 325 - Overseas: When World Travelers Write (3 Cr.)
This course starts by examining iconic non-fiction travel narratives like Graham Greene’s Journey without Maps and its contemporary successor, Tim Butcher’s Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene. We then consider how creative non-fiction narratives of being an immigrant differ from travel narratives, using Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family as an example. Finally we shift to what will be the course’s primary focus: fiction written by third culture authors (where “third culture” means authors who spent their formative childhood years outside their ostensible “home” nation). As examples of third culture authors we treat, among others, Ian McEwan and Barbara Kingsolver. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Spring semester. Rauwerda.
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