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Academic Year 2000/2001

Introduction to Asian American Writing
ENGL 206 SP

This course is a survey of Asian American literature as it developed from WWII to the present. The class will read representative texts of key historical moments including internment and the Vietnam War. We also will discuss these texts in terms of the emergence of an uniquely Asian American aesthetic, particularly through experimental novels and new forms of feminist poetry. This simultaneous focus on history and poetics will lead us to examine the formation of Asian American reading and writing communities, the controversial constitution of an Asian American literary canon, the link between settlement and changing literary representations of home and belonging, and the relationship between the production of fiction and its consumption inside and outside the minor community.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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