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Responding to literary scholarship’s continuing concern with the exile, the refugee, the cosmopolitan, and the networks and flows of modernity, this seminar examines the migrant origins and later migrations of English-language modernism, with some attention to French-language writing and film. Authors (and auteurs) considered may include Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot,​ Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Mike Gold, Jean Rhys, Jean Renoir, Aimé Césaire, Olivia Manning, George Lamming, and Zadie Smith. Primary readings will be complemented by relevant critical and theoretical texts, including writings on global justice.