Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MURDER AND UNBELONGING IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the way murder and exclusion function in the global literary imagination, particularly as murder relates to racialized and gendered modes of understanding identity and nation. We will focus primarily on fictional renderings of historical murders and connect our readings to cultural narratives of violence as experienced through the impoverished body, the post-colonial body, the enslaved body, and the alien/or foreign body.