Mar 29, 2024  
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2019-2020 
    
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGZ 9000 The Literature of the New Land: American Expatriate Writers


4 semester hours

The literary output of the so-called Lost Generation of expatriate writers has produced a particularly rich vein of study for critics. This class will expand the scope of that study to offer a broad examination of American literature through a focus on expatriate writing, from colonial times (those coming to the New World), through the modern era and into the globalized world of the twenty-first century. We will look at the unique perspectives expatriate writers have gained in terms of the new lands they encountered and those they left behind. We will in particular look at the self-cultivation at the heart of the expatriate literary experience and how it leads to a fierce individualism. Writers will include Anne Bradstreet, Lafcadio Hearn, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, and Aleksander Hemon.