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Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  North American Literature through its Texts
   Sources of information
Basic

REQUIRED READINGS (PRIMARY SOURCES):

  • 3 short stories (by Mukherjee, Divakaruni and Jen; PDF or print copies).
  • 2 autobiographical essays (by Lam and Sui Sin Far; PDF or copies).
  • No more than 7 chapters from three books: Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, and Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

Apart from these longer texts, which should be read before class, a few short texts, mostly poems and excerpts, will be provided as PDF or handouts, and analyzed in class (or Moodle).
Complementary

RECOMMENDED SECONDARY SOURCES: 
  • Sau-ling WONG's Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993)
  • King-kok CHEUNG's An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997)
  • Begoña SIMAL's Identidad étnica y género en la narrativa de escritoras chinoamericanas (UDC Univ. Press, 2000)
  • Crystal PARIKH and Daniel KIM's The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
  • Rachel LEE's The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature (Routledge, 2016).  
  • Begoña SIMAL's Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019/2020). PDF excerpts in Moodle.
OTHER BOOK FRAGMENTS AND CHAPTERS: David HOLLINGER’s Postethnic America, Sau-ling WONG’s “Denationalization Reconsidered,” Werner SOLLORS’ Beyond Ethnicity, Ana MANZANAS and Jesús BENITO’S Narratives of Resistance, Salman RUSHDIE’s “Imaginary Homelands,” Begoña SIMAL’s “Andrew Lam’s Narratives of Return,” etc.
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