Blog Prompts for Transnationalism Course

Posts by Group C due on September 23

Comments by Group A due on September 24

Please choose one of the following options:

1. Discuss the intertextual relationship that Open City makes with Cosmopolitanism. How does the reference to Appiah’s essay in Cole’s novel influence your understanding of both books?
2. Open City is the first work of fiction we are studying. Identify some of the topics related to transnationalism that Cole’s novel engages; then, discuss how the fact that Open City is a work of fiction influences its engagement with those topics.