HACU 234

HACU 234
Traveling Identities: Immigrants, Exiles and Sojourners
in Film, Literature and Culture
Spring 2001

Eva Rueschmann
Asst. Professor of
Cultural Studies
Phone: 559-5429
erHA@hampshire.edu
Office hours: ASH 107,
M 1-2:20, Th 1-3

Mon screenings at 2:30 in ASH Auditorium
Wed seminars 2:30-5:20 in FPH 107


	Online Resources

	Check out the syllabus, including details of assignments and required texts. Communicate with other students in the class using these e-mail addresses. If you would like to set up an online discussion, please contact me. Use the research center. Ask a librarian, browse background reading. Get general advice on Division I exams. Browse links to related topics. ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS WEEKS Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve

Screenings/Announcements

Week Five: March 5

Photo by Jane Scherr

Screening of Eva Hoffman's
lecture on exile and writing at the Holocaust Museum (1 hr.)

Please re-read Edward Said's essay "Reflections on Exile" and the first section of Hoffman's autobiography, "Paradise."

Additional Links:

An informative interview with Eva Hoffman at the University of California at Berkeley

An essay on the "exiled body" in Eva Hoffman's autobiography: Danuta Zadworna Fjellestad, "The Insertion of the Self into the Space of Borderless Possibility: Eva Hoffman's Exiled Body"

Readings/Assignments

March 7

This week we will focus on Eva Hoffman's autobiography Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language(1989). We will discuss Hoffman's work as a Central European emigrant autobiography and as an example of postmodern writing of the exiled self.

As you prepare your reading, reflect on the ways in which Hoffman tells her tale of exile. What kinds of images and tropes does she use to capture her experience of constructing a new identity in a different language and culture? What are the different dimensions of exile that Hoffman writes about?

Additional readings:

> Leon Grinberg, "Migration and Identity" and "Migration and Language" (hand-outs)

> Marianne Hirsch, "Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood"

Write your journal entry for this week on any aspect of or passage from Eva Hoffman's memoir.

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