ENGL 460

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Lit of American Minorities

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring literary expressions of minority experience in America.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45724	Lecture-Discussion	G4	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	134 Armory	Hassan, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Arabs and the New World Section Info: Topic Section G4: Arabs and the New World Twelfth-century geographer al-Idrisi reported that eight Arabs sailed west from Lisbon to discover what lay beyond the ?Sea of Darkness? (the Atlantic ocean), and arrived somewhere in South America. Columbus reportedly had a copy of al-Idrisi?s book with him when he embarked on his first voyage in 1492, and he took with him Louis de Torre, a converted Moor, to act as an Arabic interpreter once the expedition reached India. Some of the earliest slave narratives were written in Arabic by literate Muslim captives from West Africa. However, large-scale Arab immigration to the Americas did not begin until the nineteenth century, and since then those immigrants and their descendants have participated in a substantial, though little known, tradition of minority literature. This course will focus on Arab-American literature, and Arab literary and cultural relations with the Americas more generally, within the emergent paradigms of inter-American literature and hemispheric studies. We will discuss recent scholarship on the globalization of U.S. American studies and its interface with Latin American studies and Arabic studies. We will then read a selection of literary works by and about Arab immigrants and their descendants throughout the Americas. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	45723	Lecture-Discussion	U3	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	134 Armory	Hassan, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Arabs and the New World Section Info: Topic Section U3: Arabs and the New World Twelfth-century geographer al-Idrisi reported that eight Arabs sailed west from Lisbon to discover what lay beyond the ?Sea of Darkness? (the Atlantic ocean), and arrived somewhere in South America. Columbus reportedly had a copy of al-Idrisi?s book with him when he embarked on his first voyage in 1492, and he took with him Louis de Torre, a converted Moor, to act as an Arabic interpreter once the expedition reached India. Some of the earliest slave narratives were written in Arabic by literate Muslim captives from West Africa. However, large-scale Arab immigration to the Americas did not begin until the nineteenth century, and since then those immigrants and their descendants have participated in a substantial, though little known, tradition of minority literature. This course will focus on Arab-American literature, and Arab literary and cultural relations with the Americas more generally, within the emergent paradigms of inter-American literature and hemispheric studies. We will discuss recent scholarship on the globalization of U.S. American studies and its interface with Latin American studies and Arabic studies. We will then read a selection of literary works by and about Arab immigrants and their descendants throughout the Americas. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.