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ENGL 50: |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
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Asian American |
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| Fall 2007 |
| Instructor: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim |
| Meets on: TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Embarcadero Hall |
| Prerequisites: None |
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| Satisfies a GE area G, a Writing, and an Ethnicity requirement |
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English 50: U.S. Minority Literature is an introduction to Asian American Cultural Texts that examines the the representations of self, community, gender, and culture from a variety of pan‑ethnic Asian American (Chinese-, Japanese-, Filipino-, Vietnamese-, Korean-, South Asian-, and other Asian-descent authored) texts. Readings are selected to introduce students to a fairly diverse range of genres: memoir, poetry, drama, fiction, and visual and film texts. The focus will be on the achievement of literary and cultural expressions in the context of Asian American experiences and identities as they are situated in specific and local communities of origin and in the particular intersections of American and immigrant history. The texts cover a period beginning around 1910 to the present, with a special focus on the history of Japanese internment, and concludes with a contemporary novel.
Required Texts:
Asian-American Literature
All I Asking For Is My Body
Citizen 13360
Monkey Bridge
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