Bilingual Imaginaries: Thinking, Writing, and Living across Languages

<p>In-person Course. This course&#160;examines what it means to exist in more than one language. For some, another language might be natively known, or laboriously acquired to the point of fluency in adult years; others may live with a second language that has been partially lost, suppressed, or broken (and perhaps later revived and reclaimed). We will read poems, plays, short stories, and novels in which various proficiencies in another language are met with restlessness, exuberance, anxiety, humor, and ingenuity. Thinking about how language and identity are bound together in vital and surprisingly elastic ways, we will consider how knowledge of a second language can impress itself on the imagination, on literature—even on one’s very sense of self.&#160;1 Credit. Session B: July 1 – August 2. Tuition: $5070.</p>