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"Asylum Narratives" is conceived as a week-long module for a General Education humanities class, ideally of about 25 students or fewer to allow for open and trusting debate.

Over three units entitled "Asylum Stories, Three Beginnings," "Stories of Law," and "Detention/Narratives," it introduces basic concepts and questions relating to the study of political asylum and refugees as they are posed at the intersection of literature, art and law. The module uses Viet Thanh Nguyen's collection The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives as the central class text in addition to documentaries, art, media representations, and documents from history, law and psychology. It also introduces, especially relevant to our Pennsylvania location, Pittsburgh's City of Asylum, a sanctuary program for persecuted writers.

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