This course will examine in short essays what’s considered elements of selfhood in modern and non modern societies, and probe how individuals of various cultures encounter themselves and the other, or spaces foreign to them, and how that in turn affects identity. Textual analysis will be key. Technology and access to highly developed technologically advanced societies affects how one looks at the other, but also how one looks at ones’ self. This may affect one’s view of sex, gender roles, one’s mental health, the “foreigner”, the “margins” in society, as well as one’s image and its transmission through various mediums, and in various narratives, among many other issues. The writers, artists, and filmmakers we engage with raise questions and critiques of these issues.

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