Introduction to Asian American Literature
ENGL 230
Fall 2015
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 264, CEAS 231 |
This course introduces students to Asian American literature, literary criticism, and culture by surveying how meanings of "America" have long depended on "Asian America." Conventional understandings of this relationship in U.S. literature and history tend to emphasize Chinese Americans in California, a dark string of Asian exclusion laws, model minority myths, changing patterns in Asian immigration following relaxed immigration restrictions between 1965-68, and the institutionalization of Asian American literature in higher education in the 1970s. We will pay attention to these contexts, but we will also focus on emergent trajectories, including representations of Asian Americans in the South, how writers refigure oral traditions and refugee histories in Southeast Asian American literature, and how global cultures such as breakdancing stage Asian American self-representation. By examining a range of genres and the critical apparatuses that these works have generated, we will explore how representing "Asian America" has shaped the making of American literature. |
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| 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: (AMST)(CEAS-MN)(CEAS)(CEAS-Lit&Cult)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Course reader with selected short works and critical essays
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart
Hmong American Writer's Circle, How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology
David Henry Hwang, M.Butterfly
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Gene Yuen Lang, American Born Chinese
le thi diem thuy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Benson Lee, Planet B-Boy
John Okada, No-No Boy
San Francisco State: On Strike
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Examinations and Assignments:
Attendance and active participation; shorter writing assignments; midterm; longer final paper; presentation. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course meets the Literature of Difference major requirement and contributes to the American Literature and Race & Ethnicity concentrations for the English major. |
| Instructor(s): Nguyen,Marguerite Times: .M.W.F. 10:00AM-10:50AM; Location: FISK302; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: 3 |
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