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Identifying with Immigrants through American Literature, Oct. 4
Christine Jackson, Ph.D., professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, will continue the college’s 2010–2011 Faculty Lecture Series with a talk titled, “The Inside Story: Exploring American Identity Through Novels of Immigration.” The presentation will take place on Oct. 4, from 12 – 1 p.m., in the Parker Building, room 240.
About the presentation:
Embarrassing accents, blistered feet, and nightmares from war atrocities—political discourse about immigration issues has heated up; but literature offers a more direct language for understanding complexities of the immigrant experience. America has a long literary tradition portraying rewards and heartaches as people endure the long journey of resettlement.
Novels by Willa Cather, Henry Roth, Julia Alvarez, and others depict the human cost of shaping an American identity. This lecture examines characters’ varied motivations for leaving their homelands, their myriad upsets over cultural confusion, and tensions as they cope with psychological trauma.
The annual Faculty Lecture Series draws from the knowledge and expertise of more than 120 full-time faculty members within the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. The series explores the faculty’s diverse areas of interest in the arts, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences.
These talks are free and open to the public. For more information on the college’s Faculty Lecture Series, contact Jim Doan, Ph.D., professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, at (954) 262-8207 or visit www.fcas.nova.edu/articles/fls.