Syllabi
Course Number
CMLT 130
Syllabus Date
Spring 2010
Department course is offered by
CMLT - Comparative Literature
Course description
What images make people think of the United States of America? Cowboys? The flag? And are there similar icons in other cultures that help define cultural identity? The National Imagination explores the concept of a national community as constructed and critiqued through literary and cinematic narratives, as well as other cultural texts.
Our underlying premise is that national languages and cultures promote the identity of particular communities. We are interested in examining those subjective expressions of culture—images, symbols, narratives—that lead people to feel that they are members of the communities we call nations. We are also interested in discovering points of resistance to national identity.
A photo of this Spring 2010 class was taken as part of Professor Bob Tobin's ongoing class photo tradition. The photograph was taken by Stephen DiRado as part of his Classroom Series.
Keywords
Spain, Austria, Japan, cultural studies, national identity, film, literature
Recommended Citation
Tobin, Robert D.; Atienza, Belen; and Valentine, Alice, "The National Imagination (Spring 2010)" (2010). Syllabi. 12.
https://commons.clarku.edu/tobinsyllabi/12
Included in
Cultural History Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Japanese Studies Commons
