Temas Subtemas
TEMA 1. Contextos e conceptos chave. 1. Concepts of race and ethnicity
2. Race and ethnicity in the US: a socio-historical introduction
3. Asian American literature: an overview
TEMA 2 - Japanese American literature (literatura xaponesa-americana) 1. Internment literature (excerpts)
2. Beyond internment (excerpts)
TEMA 3 - Chinese American literature (literatura chino-americana) 1. Sui Sin Far’s “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio..."
2. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (selected chapters)
TEMA 4 - Outros conceptos chave da literatura asiático-americana 1. Intersectionality: gender and race, ethclass, generation gap.
2. Globalization and Diaspora
3. Beyond Ethnicity?

TEXTOS: Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?”, Andrew Lam’s “Viet Kieu”; selected poems.
TEMA 5 - Vietnamese American literature (literatura vietnamita-americana) 1. Excerpts from refugee narratives (e.g. Thi Bui's The best we could do)
2. Excerpts from Nguyen’s The Sympathizer