Guía DocenteCurso Facultade de Filoloxía |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Asignaturas |
Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos |
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Datos Identificativos | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Asignatura | Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos | Código | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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Descriptores | Ciclo | Período | Curso | Tipo | Créditos | |||||||||
Grao | 2º cuadrimestre |
Cuarto | Optativa | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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Temas | Subtemas |
UNIT 1 - Conceptos e contextos | 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 - South Asian American literature |
1. Mukherjee’s The Middleman (short stories) 2. Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage (short stories) |
UNIT 5 - Vietnamese American literature | 1. Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (excerpts) 2. Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (excerpts) |
UNIT 6 - Key issues in multi-ethnic literature | 1. Intersectionality: gender and race, ethclass, generation gap (excerpts) 2. Beyond ethnicity?: Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” (short story) 3. Globalization and Diaspora: Andrew Lam’s “Viet Kieu” (essay); Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire (selected poems) |
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