One Wednesday, January 24th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Online
Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
This class spotlights Bengali-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Stories, her latest collection of nine short stories written in Italian and then translated into English. We will explore how these vignettes give us a compelling portrait of Rome along with a memorable cast of unnamed characters, native and immigrant, who inhabit this city. We will consider the ways in which these stories are as much about unburied grief, isolation, and separation as they are about fortitude and survival. We will also consider how Lahiri, an immigrant herself, examines questions of Islamophobia and Afrophobia, belonging and unbelonging, the meaning of home and the cost of exile.
One Wednesday, January 24th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Online
Required Book:
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (9780593536322)
Supriya Goswami teaches courses in global literature, culture, and politics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Colonial India in Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2012). She is currently working on a wide-ranging second book, which looks at connections between children’s literature and history-writing, particularly focusing on the two World Wars and the wars in Afghanistan. She has also published in such scholarly journals as the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, South Asian Review, and Wasafiri.
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
