- Survey of Asian American Literature

Catalog description

This course is a survey of the major issues, movements, and/or themes in the study of Asian American literature and culture—including novels, poetry, performance, short stories, graphic novels, memoirs, and essays—with the goal of understanding them within the contexts of their production. Issues and topics may include immigration, diaspora, ethnic and gender formation, kinship and sexuality, interethnic dynamics, cultural nationalism and feminism, model minorities and Orientalism, assimilation, and generational conflict.