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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 260: Immigration in Literature


1 unit
Prerequisite: Completion with a 2.0 or better of one unit numbered ENGL 120 to ENGL 189, or permission of instructor.
The representation of immigration and immigrant life in North America, especially in texts written by people who are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants. Topics considered include working class experience, the psychic upheaval caused by drastic relocation, the special tensions that arise between children and parents as life is made in a new world, and the formation of ethnic/racial identity through contact with those already resident in North America. Staff