Asian American Literature and Its Discontents
ENGL 243
Spring 2008 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 244, FGSS 346 |
What is so Asian American about Asian American literature? The course will survey Asian American literature from its emergence as first anthologized in Aiiieeee (1974) fueled by the Yellow Power Movement to the various cultural and literary challenges since then posed in terms of gender, sexuality, and colonialism. The class will give a brief overview of Asian American history in the 19th and 20th centuries to contextualize the two centuries of Asian American writing in the United States and how themes have evolved and been challenged through the 21st century. The class will develop close reading skills to interrogate literary (traditional and experimental novels) and filmic texts (melodrama and musical) by and about Asian/Asian Americans to raise questions about form, aesthetics, and the literary market as they relate to the larger project of Asian American studies. These texts offer not only different ways of understanding sexuality, gender, migration, and ethnicity, but also challenge how we ask ethical questions of texts and how we read literature. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Chin et al., THE BIG AIIIIEEE (anthology)
Hagedorn et al. CHARLIE CHAN IS DEAD (anthology)
Kingston, CHINAMEN
Cha, DICTEE
Okada, NO-NO BOY
Yamanaka, BLU'S HANGING
Bulosan, AMERICA IS IN THE HEART
Mukherjee, JASMINE
King-Lob Cheung, AN INTERETHNIC COMPANION TO ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Lisa Lowe, IMMIGRANT ACTS
Films: FLOWER DRUM SONG, SLAYING THE DRAGON
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will submit brief one-page reaction/inquiry papers weekly.. Each student will also be required to present an aspect of the class session's reading assignment. Grades will be based on a midterm paper (4-6 pp.) and one final 12 - 15 pp paper, inquiry papers, presentation and active listening and participation in class discussion. |
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