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 Four: February 26

No Film Screening this week.

We will begin with small group work and a discussion of Helena Maria Viramontes's short story "The Cariboo Cafe." Please re-read the story and be prepared to talk about the ways in which Viramontes connects and interrelates the three characters' lives and perspectives.

We will then continue with a discussion of your visual narratives or images on the themes of home, exile, and migration. You should be able to speak about your selection of images and critical or personal perspective.

Please read Edward Said's "Reflections on Exile" as well as the chapters from Iain Chambers's book as inspirations and provocations.

Reminders:

Those of you who have not given me your student information sheets with phone numbers and
e-mail addresses, please do so on Monday.

For those of you who missed the screening of El Norte, the video can be viewed at Amherst College Audio-Visual Reserve at individual viewing stations. El Norteis also available at Video to Go in Amherst and Pleasant Street Video in Northampton.

Readings/Assignments

February 28

No class this week - Exam/Advising Day. Please sign up on my door (107 ASH) if you wish to speak to me on this day.