English 131: Border Crossings: Narratives of Travel, Exile, and Immigration

"This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English."

Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts.

This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum.