Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
North American Literature through its Texts |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Subject | North American Literature through its Texts | Code | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
UNIT 1 - Concepts and contexts | 1. Concepts of race and ethnicity 2. Race and ethnicity in the US: a socio-historical introduction 3. Asian American literature: an overview |
UNIT 2 - Japanese American literature | 1. Internment literature (excerpts) 2. Beyond internment (excerpts) |
UNIT 3 - Chinese American literature | 1. Sui Sin Far’s “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio..." 2. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (selected chapters) |
UNIT 4 - Vietnamese American literature | 1. Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (excerpts) 2. Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (excerpts) |
UNIT 5 - Key issues in multi-ethnic literature | 1. Intersectionality: gender and race, ethclass, generation gap. Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” (short story) 2. Globalization and Diaspora: Andrew Lam’s “Viet Kieu” (essay); Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage (short stories); Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire (selected poems) 3. Beyond Ethnicity? |
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