Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE ASIAN AMERICAN NOVEL ***** This course surveys the thematics and historical contexts of Asian American literary traditions. We read a range of texts from the late nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing the novel, but also including some short fiction. We start in Gold Rush California, move to early Chinese America, then to mid-century Chinatown, and World War II and Japanese interment. The largest part of the course deals in Civil Rights inspired literatures, and this backdrop also informs the course's concluding look at recent texts that work from new and different political and literary paradigms. ***** Also offered as ENGL 366.