Border Crossings in Literature and Film (ARB-0066)

Spring 2026 · ARB 0066 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Explores themes of border crossing, exile, deterritorialization, smuggling, trespass, perilous boat journeys, the contact zone of the refugee camp. Focus on literary and filmic works that redefine the meanings of home, visibility and identity, as well as on narratives that revise the concept of the border through the lenses of gender (women’s and trans literature), discourses of dis/ability, stories of crossing the human/animal divide, as well as violating the border between human and machine.

Course codes: ARB-0066, ARB 0066, ARB0066, ARB-66, ARB 66, ARB66, ILVS-0066, ILVS 0066, ILVS0066, ILVS-66, ILVS 66, ILVS66, ILCS-0076, ILCS 0076, ILCS0076, ILCS-76, ILCS 76, ILCS76

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