76-130 Freshman Seminar: Immigrant Fictions

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Contemporary writers offer vibrant portrayals of questions around identity and belonging that accompany immigration. Their works show how immigrants and their children reinvent themselves, even as they look back to other homelands. This contemporary literature course combines fiction and scholarly nonfiction readings to examine the experiences of transnational migration. We will consider not only the experience of personal migration, but also the global social, economic and political processes that structure that movement. Possible fiction readings might include Jhumpa Lahiri, Mohsin Hamid, Christina Garcia, Juno Daz, Gish Jen, and Caryl Phillips.

Prerequisites: none listed

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