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Apr 18, 2024
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2020-2021 Interim Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 295-01 - Special Topic: Innocents Abroad: Travel Narratives4 credits (Fall Term 2)
In this course we will read travel writing by novelists, journalists, and explorers in different historical periods and we will also write non-fiction travel essays, personal travel experiences, and analytic essays about our readings. Before the great upsurge in tourism in nineteenth-century Europe, travelers ventured across the seas in search of trading opportunities or on journeys of exploration. Travel becomes a personal quest for identity in M. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” or an existential journey in Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” If Jamaica Kincaid’s satirizes tourists in A Small Place, Salman Rushdie directs us to a journey that reflects on the meaning of artistic and political freedom in Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Other readings include Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Teju Cole’s Open City.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 .
Instructor: Kapila
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