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Writing the U.S. Migrant Experience
ENGL299 SP

This cross-cultural course asks how the experiences of migration, immigration, and exile are represented in literature, art, and contemporary political discourse. We will focus our discussion on 20th C Asian American, African American, and Chicano/a cultural workers including the novelist Carlos Bulosan, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the artist Jacob Lawrence, and the poet Lorna Dee Cervantes. Central themes will be drawn from key historical moments such as the Great Migration, and will include tensions among "model" and other minorities, bilingualism and other borderlands, the American Dream, and the relationship between gender norms and changing labor needs. We will trace shared as well as divergent stylistic strategies employed by newly-arrived groups to make sense of their experiences.

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

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Ray,Kasturi    

Times: ..T.T.. 02:40PM-04:00PM;     Location: FISK410

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 30)

SR. major: 10   Jr. major: 15

SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major:    SO: 5   FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Ethical Reasoning, Speaking

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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