MCT 3381 Contemporary Europe
This course deals with borders and perceptions of "the other" on various levels, discussing personal, social, cultural and national identity and otherness in European literature and film. We will look at political border-crossings between cultures and countries, issues of immigration and marginalization, borders of identity and the notion of the double, transgressions of social borders and the motif of the madman or social outcast and the borders between reality and fiction.