Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Cultures in the United States

Harvard FAS

Centering questions of home, nation, and identity, this course examines works by U.S.-based and U.S.-born writers in the context of key historical events that have shaped diasporic life in the U.S in the years following World War II: Japanese internment, the Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Cold War interventions in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, the War on Terror, and the so-called illegal migrant crisis at the Mexico-U.S. border. We ask: how has the experience of displacement—whether forced…