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RELIGST 782

Diasporas, Transnationalism and Religious Identities

Graduate

Winter 2026 · Diasporas & Relig Identities · C01

Readings

  • Etext Refugees Of The Revolution - Lifetime Access
    Allan · Required
    ISBN 9780804788953; 9780804774925
  • Etext In The Wake: On Blackness And Being - Lifetime Access
    Sharpe · Required
    ISBN 9780822373452; 9780822362944
  • Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience
    Vinh Nguyen · Required
    ISBN 9780520397262
  • Etext Sanctuary Everywhere - Lifetime Access
    Sostaita · Required
    ISBN 9781478059592; 9781478030607
  • Etext Return To Ruin - Permanent Access
    Saleh · Required
    ISBN 9781503614123; 9781503614116
Winter 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Johannes Anyuru, “Alhambra,” trans. Kira Josefsson, Words Without Borders , March 5, 2019, https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2019-03/march-2019-swedish-alhambra-johannes-anyuru-kira-josefsson/ *read and annotate in-class*
  • Film: Majid Majidi, Baran (2001) (1hr 34min) *watch together in-class*
  • Vinh Nguyen, Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience (California, 2023), first half
  • Nguyen, Lived Refuge , second half
  • Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke, 2016), first half
  • Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (Vintage, 2001), selections
  • Sharpe, In the Wake , second half
  • W.E.B. duBois, “The Comet” [1920]
  • Saidiya Hartman, “The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance,” BOMB Magazine , June 5, 2020, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-end-of-white-supremacy-an-american-romance/
  • Stefania Pandolfo, “The Burning: Finitude and the Politico-Theological Imagination of Illegal Migration,” Anthropological Theory 7, no. 3 (2007): 329–63.

Readings

  • Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience
    Vinh Nguyen · 2023 · Required
    University of California Press
  • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
    Christina Sharpe · 2016 · Required
    Duke University Press
  • Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert
    Barbara Andrea Sostaita · 2024 · Required
    Duke University Press
  • Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile
    Diana Allan · 2014 · Required
    Stanford University Press
  • Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
    Zainab Saleh · 2020 · Required
    Stanford University Press
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