MID E 4463 - Cultural Encounters: European & American Travellers to the Middle East, 17th to the 20th Century

Course Detail

Units:

3.0

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Lecture

Description

Meets with MID E 6463 and TURK 6630. Travel narratives about the Middle East from the 17th to the 20th century by Europeans and Americans. We will deal with topics such as describing "the other" without fetishizing or exoticizing; what is literature; power dynamics and cultural works.