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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| North American Literature through its Texts |
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| Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
| 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 - Other key issues in Asian American literature | 1. Intersectionality (gender and race, ethclass...) and generation gap. 2. Globalization and Diaspora 3. Beyond Ethnicity? TEXTS: Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?”, Andrew Lam’s “Viet Kieu”; selected poems. |
| UNIT 5 - Vietnamese American literature | 1. Excerpts from refugee narratives (e.g. Thi Bui's The best we could do) 2. Excerpts from Nguyen’s The Sympathizer |
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