Prof. Vincenzo Bavaro

Argomenti del programma: “A Walk on the Wild Side”: Walking, Writing, Remembering New York City New York City has been alternatively seen as a synecdoche for “America” or instead located at the social and cultural antipodes of the country, either praised as a quintessential embodiment of American exceptionalism or denigrated as a modern day Babel, a Gotham of perversity doomed to perdition.

Argomenti del programma: Immigration and the American Imagination This course examines the central role of migration in the making of American literature and culture. Through poetry, fiction, memoir, graphic narrative, film, and documentary, students will explore how migrants, refugees, and their descendants have imagined America, negotiated borders, confronted exclusion, and redefined ideas of language, home, work, and belonging.

Argomenti del programma: “A Walk on the Wild Side”: Walking, Writing, Remembering New York City New York City has been alternatively seen as a synecdoche for “America” or instead located at the social and cultural antipodes of the country, either praised as a quintessential embodiment of American exceptionalism or denigrated as a modern day Babel, a Gotham of perversity doomed to perdition.