Reading Cultures: Collection, Travel, Exchange II
Course Code
HUMA 14100 97
Course Description
The Winter Quarter of Reading Cultures considers the centrality of movement, migration and travel to the study of culture. Turning to texts such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place and Tomás Rivera's And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, we ask how cultures have retained their coherence, historically, under conditions of migration, diaspora and violent or enforced movement. We also consider the ways that cultures themselves travel and change, and analyze the ways that language and narrative function as mediums of cultural movement and transmission.
Course Criteria
This course is only open to incoming UChicago transfer students; please see the Summer Session Incoming Transfer Students page to apply.
This course must be taken alongside HUMA 14000, Reading Cultures: Collection, Travel, Exchange II, as well as an afternoon writing course that runs August 4-September 12, 2025 (no class September 1).
Instructor(s)
Valerie Levan
UChicago Registration 1Visiting Application 2